Advice on fighting in RPGs from a perspective of how-to
Setup I got a Steam chat from someone with whom I regular interact over that channel. He was wondering out loud if Dungeon Grappling includes rules for kicking. My first response was “that’s just an unarmed strike; DnD doesn’t do that level of specificity.” Fine, if unsatisfying. Then he noted that what he really wanted…
Welcome to another installment of Melee Academy! Today’s topic is “Opening Moves.” Here are some other posts by other participants Melee Academy – Wu Wei – Mailanka crouches in Wait with a post on Wu Wei. How you can use optional rules to create greater tension in your melee game, and why Wait can be…
My article in this latest issue of Pyramid, The Broken Blade, presents an alternate framework for weapon breakage based more or less on looking at the HP of the weapon in question. In fact, the basis for the calculations I did was to (say) compare the HP of a sword (2-4 lbs of steel) to…