Real History in Gaming Archives

History In TTRPGs

By Variant Rory 📚 / 04/09/2022

If you have been hanging around the Variant Ventures page for a while, you will know I am the history guy. I like history, I […]

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Enhance Ability Histories: Raphia

By Variant Rory 📚 / 02/10/2022

Welcome back to the next Enhance Ability Histories! Today we will be covering the Battle of Raphia from the wars of succession of Alexander the

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Enhance Ability Histories – Cannae

By Variant Rory 📚 / 01/31/2022

Welcome Variants, to a new series for the site, Enhance Ability Histories! Here we are going to be discussing historical battles, and how the outcomes

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New Series – Enhance Ability Histories

By Variant Rory 📚 / 01/18/2022

Welcome Variants, to a new series I like to call “Enhance Ability Histories.” In this series, we will analyze a historical battle and see how

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New Year, New Plans

By Variant Rory 📚 / 01/04/2022

Welcome to the new year, Variants! Variant Ventures had some amazing things go on in 2021, as Variant Kait covered in her year in review

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National Card Playing Day – December 28

By Variant Berry 🍓 / 12/28/2021

Poker. Gin Rummy. Crazy 8s. So many of the games of my childhood can all be traced back to a single deck of cards. No

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War Talk – Box Barrage

By Variant Rory 📚 / 12/07/2021

Welcome Back, Variants! Following last week’s blast of a post about artillery and indirect fire, I’d like to talk about Box Barrages today. A box

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National Dice Day – December 4th

By Variant Kait 🎨 / 12/03/2021

Happy National Dice Day, Variants! Though many games and gambles over several millennia have featured dice of varying sides, reportedly even deciding the fate of

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