Articles and discussion about grappling and wrestling rules and theory for RPGs
Over at The Dragon’s Flagon, the wayfarer penned something about grappling. Naturally, since I’ve had a few things to say about it myself, I was drawn in as the proverbial moth to the flame. He’s writing a “fantasy-heartbreaker” RPG. What is that? I had to look it up, and found this definition over on The…
Kromm laid down the format, so I tried to do the same thing for Judo. This is bascially a find/replace of Judo for Karate, since they mostly have the same rules. Still – check my work? Remember to use the higher of DX or skill. Going by the Basic Set alone, doing all the math…
Grappling is probably one of the oldest forms of combat on the planet. It’s also the form of combat most often used when animals are hunting (some of them, like constrictor snakes, exclusively so). It’s also one that both children, animals, and child animals do instinctively for play. And yet the rules are so often…