Steel & Scholarship

Outstanding! I've been gaming for over forty years, and I've been into historical combat for almost that long. I'm also an arms and armor curator at a museum. I've homebrewed tons of tweaks and systems to make combat more based in reality and give it more flavor, but this is better! I'll be using some or all of these rules going forward in each D&D game I run from now on. Martial class players totally deserve it, and so do my steel-swinging villains! I hope there will be a vol. 2 with even more styles and weapons. I'd like to see Sword and Buckler play, Italian Longsword (Fiore), a heavy shock cavalry style (maybe with rules for jousting!),rapier and dagger, rapier and cloak, rules for improvised off-hand parrying weapons, knife-fighting rules, a polearm-based style (Jeu de la Hache?), and maybe more applications of Perception, Deception, Intimidation,and Insight to pre-combat, combat, and post-combat. Thank you for putting out such a marvelous product! I will be trying additional works in you product line.

Alison

Very accurate and historical book. I’ve not tested duel system, but arms and narrative part is awesome.