Recent content by Sir Gawain

With my players we started using these rules (which will need a bit of tweaking and adjusting, but seem to work, anyway). - You can move 1-2m as part of a CA, and still do something else (attack, reload, cast, and so on). - You can choose to spend the entire CA moving, and so you move your...

And, I if remember well, if you use the same CM more than once during the same fight, your opponents get a cumulative +10% bonus when they try to resist.

Thank you. We owe you many hours of playing and dreaming.

I totally agree. Awesome!

I agree with the necessity to maintain the flow of play, but there is a major feature that keeps me from adopting genHP: my players like to use CM, and often boast their fighting style and their ability to skewer chosen locations (one is famous for always trying to decapitate foes, another one...

If I were to tweak the CS rules, I'd propose that: You have several broad CS (swords, spears, axes, etc.) and many specialized CS (broadsword and shield, rapier and main gauche, long spear, and so on). You just develop the specialized CS, but the related broader one gets half the score you have...

Combat Styles are also a matter of... well, style! Set aside Power Play and "the dedliest weapon combination available", and try to feel which weapon your character would prefer. Does he like the gleaming metal of a sword's blade? Does he fight behind the protection of a large shield? Does he...

Illuminating! Now many things are clear (to me, anyway...)!

And if you use general HP every wound goes to the same "location". With true locations, a PC/NPC can survive a lot of punishment, if taken in different body zones.

Good idea! I really like it, and I'm going to have a try in my newly started campaign.

It's really nice, and I just needed something like that, since I'm starting my first RQII campaign... Many thanks!