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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4770889" data-attributes="member: 80487">Thinking about the feel of Fritz Leiber's stories:Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two of the greatest swordsmen in all the worlds ... because the Author makes it so and gives them "plot protection".In RuneQuest, or a system with a roughly similar approach, skill can certainly go a long way toward doing unto others before they do unto you. However, on those unlucky occasions when a hero is hit, armor is a pretty big deal -- and the famous duo tend not to wear much. (Nor to use shields; the fencing style seems more modern than medieval.)So, one might want to look at how one's chosen system handles damage, and adjust it to taste. D&D works well for a more "cinematic" approach, because for a high-level character a loss of HP that might kill a normal man might not even represent a wound.</blockquote>