Weapon Defaults, Sword and Shield, and Roland Warzecha
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Weapon Defaults, Sword and Shield, and Roland Warzecha

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Fight Like You Train; Don’t Waste Your Time Roland Warzecha has a new Patreon video out; it will likely be publicly available sooner or later. It was shot at the Berlin Buckler Bouts over the last few weeks. In it he emphasizes the similarities between weapons used in the off hand, and shields are definitely…

Prioritizing Defense, Prelude
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Prioritizing Defense, Prelude

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This is going to be a bit of a meta-post, in that I’ve been trying to work around an idea about running defensive-oriented combat in RPGs ever since I published the related article Unpacking Failed Attack Rolls in GURPS. In it, I note in the On Guard! and What’s the Point? sections that RPGs tend to…

Cooler Undead Encounters for Hall of Judgment
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Cooler Undead Encounters for Hall of Judgment

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If you don’t have a Cleric in your party, specifically one with Turning, you might not need this. But if you do, or just want to make the standard 250-point Dungeon Fantasy RPG characters work a bit harder to kill undead in Hall of Judgment, consider the following. What follows inevitably contains spoilers.