Silver Gems & Perils

The Unga Bunga Build Fighters have been around throughout history, wargaming and most of fantasy literature. We popularly see with Tolkien's Lord of Rings, Robert E Howard's Conan The Barbarian and Kentaro Miura's Berserk with Guts 'The Black Swordsman'. Fantasy Tabletop RPGs allow us to portray these characters into our referee's campaigns.  While the Fighter became a class known amongst the community as a simple class to play. It leaves us to question the enjoyment of playing a Fighting-Man with a battle axe. In medieval wargaming, the common footsoldier, knight and archers make up the majority of an army, but once the fantasy supplement had orcs, elves and dwarves it changed the battles forever. Now I don't have experience/knowledge with OD&D and Chainmail, but regardless of what system you use. It can be achieved to make the most interesting Fighter in your group or solo campaign. Without further ado let's further discuss the class! Building a Fi...

The 50 Faith Build Class I wanted to start a 'How To' series focused on the classic D&D classes that have a long history from OD&D to the present day. I have no experience with modern editions of D&D so I can't share my input of the classes we still have today. So I'll be providing examples and discussions with this series. so without further ado let's start with the Cleric! When it comes to classic RPGs and today's video games. The White Mage, Healer, Paladins and eventually any character that performs healing and buffs can act as a support character. In OD&D and later on AD&D the cleric was born to fulfill the role of a healer, undead hunter and additional utility spells. The Cleric was the very first healer before OD&D's Greyhawk supplement introduced the Paladin. Which allowed a Fighter to essentially perform healing while having military proficiency. However, the cleric still provides most of the divine magic which doesn't ge...