Recent content by Arimathean

I'm currently reading the Jackals supplement Travellers on the War Road. It gives a lot of additional detail on each of the four cultures, focusing on social organization, which would be useful to both players and GMs. It offers four new rites for each of the ritualist traditions, effectively...

Thanks. I found it in my hardcover. I suspect it's one of the many (MANY) proofreading errors. I could not find any mention of a rapier in the weapon lists or monster descriptions. But I will keep an eye out for it in future Jackals materials. (My copy of the supplement, Travelers on the War...

There is no rapier in Jackals (unless it appears in a later supplement). The only blades on the weapons list are dagger, leaf-bladed sword, stabbing sword, scimitar, and khopesh. If any of these is anachronistic, it's probably the scimitar.

Widespread literacy did not arise until well into the Iron Age. The handful of literate people in the Bronze Age were mostly priests and accountants. In this context, the distant past was mysterious, since it had left no written records. The ruins of older civilizations, inhabited by demons...

Jackals describes itself as a "game of Bronze Age sword and sorcery." I might describe it as a mashup of Conan and the OT book of Judges.

A year after this discussion, Osprey published Jackals: Bronze Age Fantasy Roleplaying. I'm reading the basic rules now, and it's making me want to play - or even run - this game.