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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9276126" data-attributes="member: 7026594"><p>Drafts went back and forth, from what I remember Jason Tondro talking about in last week's video.</p><p></p><p></p><p>A few non-dragon monsters are broadly categorized as "dragon types" for the purpose of random wilderness encounters in OD&D, including hydras, cockatrices, basilisks, and chimera. I don't think the intent is to say that they're related to dragons, but that they fill a similar role in how they act and are encountered, and to fill out those tables.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It was a standard term from military history and wargaming. Like "men and materiel" when referring to military resources. It was gender specific in that older such books do tend to assume that all soldiers are men. Edgar Rice Burroughs used it regularly in his fiction, including one of the Barsoom novels being titled "A Fighting Man of Mars".</p><p></p><p>The writers were certainly aware of female warriors in pulp fiction, like Red Sonja and Jirel of Joiry, but I'm thinking they assumed that their audience would recognize them as exceptional. I highly doubt they intended the name of the class to rule out such characters, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9276126, member: 7026594"] Drafts went back and forth, from what I remember Jason Tondro talking about in last week's video. A few non-dragon monsters are broadly categorized as "dragon types" for the purpose of random wilderness encounters in OD&D, including hydras, cockatrices, basilisks, and chimera. I don't think the intent is to say that they're related to dragons, but that they fill a similar role in how they act and are encountered, and to fill out those tables. It was a standard term from military history and wargaming. Like "men and materiel" when referring to military resources. It was gender specific in that older such books do tend to assume that all soldiers are men. Edgar Rice Burroughs used it regularly in his fiction, including one of the Barsoom novels being titled "A Fighting Man of Mars". The writers were certainly aware of female warriors in pulp fiction, like Red Sonja and Jirel of Joiry, but I'm thinking they assumed that their audience would recognize them as exceptional. I highly doubt they intended the name of the class to rule out such characters, though. [/QUOTE]
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