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Strangely enough longswords weren't always used blade against blade, there was a school of fighting where knights were taught to use the sword "upside down", gripping the blade and using the blade as the shaft of a warhammer, with the crossguard as the head as blades were ineffective against...

In order to use the english longbow required years of practice not just to build up muscle and accuracy but also the physical deformity :eek:required, needing a start from a young age. Skeletons of archers pulled out of old battle sites (and I think, the Mary Rose) showed them to have a...

I take it by welsh you mean valleys accented Wenglish (the common stereotype). I now have a lovely image of an elf going "See those two tree houses, mine is the one in the middle boyo" :D

The curse words are nothing new, most go back to 2e and the Ortez was in 3e as the language was "rediscoverd". I think from Year of the Comet but not too sure. FASA did dwell on all of that and again it is nothing new, the sex trade, drugs etc are again, all from 3e as well as organisations...

I ran a mini campaign to test the rules when it came out, ran for about 6 games, it's been a while but this is what I remember: The basic rules are no more simple than 3e, but the matrix and magic is far simpler and dispite not knowing the rules at first the game flowed quite quickly so this...

Not sure about SCA in the US but I've never heard of that happening in LRP in the UK, weapon/shield breakages happen and people except that. If you are going to swing things at people you have to expect them to break/airblade sometime (the sword, not the person) Fortunately rarely unless you...

Funny thing with shields, they always were expendable in the same way as arrows etc. I (dimly) remember a documentary on shields called Decisive Weapons (I think) following the development of shields etc. In saxon duels the fighters were each allowed to take in 3 shields, as it was expected...

It had nothing on the Dinosaur levels from the original Command and Conquer

I was more amused by Durkons reason for not wearing mail, ie long hair and little links of metal. I was laughing and wincing at the same time (Shows the dwalf has a higher wisdom stat than me, one of these days I'll learn how to put mail on without losing clumps of hair.)

If death has no consequence it cheapens the victory and/or sacrifice. I remember one campaign back when I was a student (far to much time on my hands in those days) when we kept track of character losses. Most had only lost 1PC, one lost 3, another lost something like 12 characters (he...

It wasn't so bad in SR3 with the combat pool allowing dodge. I actually did quite well with a combat character who only had no speed boosts and always went slower than our "decker". Though mostly I did it to wind up our resident powergamer it turns out you can get some quite nasty cyber if you...

Wow! There I was thinking all characters came with maxed out willpower as standard. Our group thought the combat pool was king and Q+I+W were typically prioritied over everything else just to survive. Dodge was seen as better than soak. (Titanium and dermal sheafed trolls withstanding) And...

Best thing for Shadowrun? Shadowrun 3rd ed. Better matrix rules than 4th ed (once you get the hang of them) FAR better rigging rules (again, once you get the hang of them) More gritty healing rules with perpenant damage, limb loss etc. No stupid skills caps so you don't start the game with...

Been on the recieving end in a deadlands game, zombies with nitrogylcirin (sp?) bottles strapped to them. I'm still trying to suppress the memory. It didn't end well.

Not entirely true. You CAN cast inside an AMF if you are using the right (or wrong, according to viewpoint) source books. e.g In the Lords of Madness there is a spell which allows you to cast into/through an AMF, you cast it as a swift action and the next spell you cast works. Can't remember...

For me much of the entertainment from GM'ing is crafting the story and making stuff up, pre gen's pretty much defy the reason I GM. Likewise while playing I've played in scant few pregen games. I actually prefere a company doesn't waste time on adventures which aren't needed and concentrates...

Remember that this board is "Grandma Friendly." Removing certain letters from words does not mean that they are no longer completely inappropriate. - Xath

Yeah, you pretty much had to go THROUGH a shield rather than around it. I remember one of those history programmes I watch far to much of metioning saxon dueling. Each was allowed no more than 3 shields, on the expectation that all 3 would be destroyed in a fight before the owner fell.

While the Iron Kingdoms dragons are cool in an all powerful god like way, spreading taint behind them and twisting all in their wake the Shadow Run dragons are way cooler. Dunkie (unlike Thompgc I ain’t even going to attempt to spell it) as a media darling with his own chat show (pre...

In a game where you are playing tomb robbing, body looting scu… uh, adventurers how do you reasonably stop PC’s scavenging from the corpse? :confused: Just look at the name. Dungeons and Dragons. Looting tombs/vaults in dungeons, stealing dragons treasure, it’s barely justified robbery. The...