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Why do cities in Faerun have fortified walls?
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<blockquote data-quote="squibbles" data-source="post: 8537133" data-attributes="member: 6937590"><p>That's an interesting observation. Howard did create a thousands of years deep backstory with the the migrations of his different faux-invented ethnicities. But he also published all his work as short adventure stories in pulp magazines. Hyboria had to be retroactively reconstructed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Sprague_de_Camp#Fantasy" target="_blank">L. Sprague de Camp</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Carter#Posthumous_collaborations_with_Howard_and_Smith" target="_blank">Lin Carter</a>, and friends and is sketchy to the degree that there's no authoritative map of it--since Howard didn't make one, and since the distances in his stories aren't always consistent.</p><p></p><p>And yet, Gygax probably got his Conan stories from the fan-fic bloated, appendix-having, quotidian nerdlove minded collections de Camp edited--and definitely would have claimed that he was influenced by them more so than LotR (for possibly disingenuous legal reasons).</p><p></p><p></p><p>This kindof gives lie to the whole medieval paradigm of warfare D&D assumes. Fireballs are just stupidly deadly in an NPC mooks storm the walls scenario. But I guess there are a lot of assumptions to sort out. Do the defender and attacker have enough wizards on hand to keep up a steady stream of fireballs? If they do, then we'd start to see the adoption of something like the <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/213507" target="_blank">modern military system</a> which, in response to overwhelming firepower, abandons fortifications in preference for mobility, concealment, and infiltration.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="squibbles, post: 8537133, member: 6937590"] That's an interesting observation. Howard did create a thousands of years deep backstory with the the migrations of his different faux-invented ethnicities. But he also published all his work as short adventure stories in pulp magazines. Hyboria had to be retroactively reconstructed by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Sprague_de_Camp#Fantasy']L. Sprague de Camp[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Carter#Posthumous_collaborations_with_Howard_and_Smith']Lin Carter[/URL], and friends and is sketchy to the degree that there's no authoritative map of it--since Howard didn't make one, and since the distances in his stories aren't always consistent. And yet, Gygax probably got his Conan stories from the fan-fic bloated, appendix-having, quotidian nerdlove minded collections de Camp edited--and definitely would have claimed that he was influenced by them more so than LotR (for possibly disingenuous legal reasons). This kindof gives lie to the whole medieval paradigm of warfare D&D assumes. Fireballs are just stupidly deadly in an NPC mooks storm the walls scenario. But I guess there are a lot of assumptions to sort out. Do the defender and attacker have enough wizards on hand to keep up a steady stream of fireballs? If they do, then we'd start to see the adoption of something like the [URL='https://muse.jhu.edu/article/213507']modern military system[/URL] which, in response to overwhelming firepower, abandons fortifications in preference for mobility, concealment, and infiltration. [/QUOTE]
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