Adept Play

Adept Play

Tag: Flashing Blades

A swashbuckling game by Mark Pettigrew, published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1984.

Yikes

Combat rules

February 16, 2023

Ron Edwards

Bushido, Ecryme, En Garde!, Flashing Blades, Lace & Steel, Stormbringer, Swashbuckler, The Riddle of Steel

[This post is adapted from activity at the Patreon.] It would be nice to consider rapier fighting. If by “nice” you mean skilled murder with horrible, terrible instruments uniquely designed for exactly that. I’m thinking mainly about civilian violence and including off-hand instruments including other weapons, bucklers, and improvised defenses. Seriously, these things are nightmarish.…
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Monday Lab: Roll to Know

Authorities, Detective/Mystery, Preparing for play, Trouble during play

September 19, 2018

Ron Edwards

Alternity, Apocalypse World, Blades in the Dark, Champions sensu lato, Extreme Vengeance, Flashing Blades, No Country for Old Kobolds, Planescape, Space Master, TFT: In the Labyrinth, The Call of Cthulhu, Trail of Cthulhu, Trollbabe, Tunnels & Trolls, Usagi Yojimbo

Usually I wait a week to post Monday Labs, partly to get enough time to edit properly, partly to keep at least something on a regular cycle at the site. But this time I couldn’t help myself, it’s been only two days and here you go. The reason is nothing less than an impressive meeting…
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