The Broken Hourglass: Weapon & Equipment Properties
There's an update today on equipment properties in the upcoming indie RPG "The Broken Hourglass," which you might find interesting:

Rules and Mechanics: Special Equipment Properties

One thing I was especially interested in seeing was that certain weapons have a "flexible" property, which makes them more difficult to deflect or parry. Now I am wondering if any of those Planewalker guys are actually as geeky as me, and misspent some of their youth as I did dressing up in armor and hitting each other with padded sticks in their local medievalist organizations. I did, and I frequently used a shield, and I hated fighting people who knew what they were doing with a flail. They'd change the trajectory of the ball-and-chain in mid-swing, so that you'd not catch it with the shield as you'd intended, and the ball would whip around and nail you in the shield-arm -- or worse, the shoulder or back. Which, in the rule system we used, meant insta-kill if you weren't armored... Hmmm, I hope TBH doesn't use THAT rule. That would suck. It'd be almost like going back and playing the original Bard's Tale again, with newbie characters that were slaughters after taking three steps out of the safety of the starting tavern into the city. But I digress...

There's an awful lot of attention to detail in the game mechanics in The Broken Hourglass - at least from what I can see - which will hopefully translate into stellar gameplay. More detail than you often see in mainstream RPGs these days... which I, for one, appreciate. At least we know that the choice of weapons will be an interesting one.


(Vaguely) related prancing about English K-Nig-Hts.
* Beyond the Gate: Jason Compton on the Making of The Broken Hourglass
* RPG Combat Design
* Indie RPG Roundtable

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