Pathfinder_OGC. Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook) - Dungeons and Dragons Wiki. Foreword: A Brief History of Fighting Men In its origins, D&D was a wargame like Warmachine or Warhammer.
You had a field filled with tiny men, and they fought each other with swords and bows. Eventually, someone got really lazy, and wanted to replace a large number of fighting men with heroic fighting men who would be easier to paint because there were much less of them. Main Page - Dungeons and Dragons Wiki.