Violent Resolution – To the Last, I Grapple with Thee
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Violent Resolution – To the Last, I Grapple with Thee

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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…

Violent Resolution – Home on the Range
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Violent Resolution – Home on the Range

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While getting up close and personal in combat is a staple of the genre, so too is rendering your foe ineffective from a distance. Archers and catapults were part of the wargaming scene from which RPGs emerged from the beginning, and this trend only increased as the games turned their focus to conflicts based on…