Tusked, six-limbed beasts of the frozen north pole region. Green martians with four arms that live in tribes. This is pretty much the same rating as the one used for men above, so I'm happy to use it to calculate Hit Dice for the various Martian animals in D&D.Īnd so, here are the stats I gleaned for each one (not including the men, who are going to vary greatly): Most of those numbers are irrelevant for my purposes, but on the far left of the chart there's a column for "Wounds to Kill". The first bit of good news is that Warriors of Mars has movement rates that are given in inches, and seem to be comparable to those used in Chainmail/D&D. Red, Black, Yellow and White Martians (all basically human-like) None of them were given stats in D&D, so I thought I'd scour Warriors of Mars to see if I can get some guidance on the matter.īefore I start, these are the creatures I'll want stats for: Most notably these come in the Wilderness Wandering Monster tables, where a decent variety of Barsoomian creatures are given as optional encounter possibilities. There are also rules for aerial warfare, and notes on many of the various characters and weird alien creatures from the books.Īs for why I'm covering it, there are a bunch of references to Barsoom, the setting of these books, in the first D&D boxed set. It covers large-scale combat with figures representing 50 men, and smaller conflicts where a figure represents one man. The game was written by Gary Gygax and Brian Blume, and not surprisingly it bears some resemblance to Chainmail. ![]() Consequently this book is very rare, but because the internet is awesome it can be found at, which is how I've been able to read a copy. There was only ever one print run, though, because the Burroughs estate was very quick to let TSR know that they were infringing on their IP rights. Midway through 1974 (I'm not sure exactly when but the Forward is dated to July) TSR published Warriors of Mars, a set of miniature wargame rules based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter novels.
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