2021-07-22 Episode 36

{.right} Halberds and Helmets Podcast Boars as pets for orcs, giant boars as mounts for dwarves and halflings, and demon boars as protector spirits of a forest.

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2016-10-13 Boar: “I dislike 2d4 and 3d4 for damage and just used 1d8 and 1d12 instead. Close enough for me. 🙂 As for HD there’s always the comparison with wolves and war dogs: 2+2. Apparently multiple wolves are required to take down a wild pig. So the only way I see is up. But HD 4 and 5 is for worgs and the like?” Thinking about boars in the comments…
Boar spear, on Wikipedia. Just read the title of the book cited: “The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: From the Earliest Period, Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Pageants, Processions and Pompous Spectacles” (multiple copies available on the Internet Archive)
Halberds and Helmets: my homebrew rules with links to the PDF files

2016-10-13 Boar

Boar spear

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