The Murder-Hobo Lifestyle
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The Murder-Hobo Lifestyle

Murder-hobos. Heavily armed vagrants, wandering from town to town. Tempers flare, and corpses lie still on the barroom floor. Like a samurai granted kiri sute gomen, the permission to cut and depart, only the presumed wailing of friends and relatives is left in their wake. Weeks later, they return, bloodied themselves, with heaping mounds of gold and…

Dragon Heresy Podcast Week Continues
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Dragon Heresy Podcast Week Continues

Today two different podcasts dropped where I talk about Dragon Heresy and martial arts in RPGs in general. Down with DnD I was on Down with DnD with Christopher Sniezak, and the podcast just dropped. We spoke about the mechanics tweaks made to Fifth Edition to support a more-gritty, more option-filled viking play style that…

Spear Combat: Reaching out
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Spear Combat: Reaching out

A nifty question on the GURPS Forums about fighting with a one-handed spear. GURPS On the one-second time scale of GURPS, the grip change needs to be handled with higher resolution. When I fight with a one-handed spear in my viking martial arts class, shield in the other hand, I use a sliding technique to…