A Guide to Combat
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Goldenrod Guides are intended to be a toolbox of variant rules and ideas for you to use in your Swords & Wizardry game! This book focuses on various options related to combat¸ such as using weapon proficiencies and combat styles¸ as well as introducing rules for running jousts and other competitive tournaments.
Now with a Forward by Matt Finch"Back at the very beginnings of the Swords & Wizardry project¸ we had a couple of different goals in mind. First was to offer people the kind of open-ended rules that characterize the very beginning of role-playing games. The second goal¸ though¸ was to provide people with a framework for tinkering around to create an individualized set of house rules. Goldenrod's Guide to Combat for Swords & Wizardry offers a set of tools for creating some of those house rules. It's a set of options for making combat more tactical¸ picking and choosing the bits you like¸ and offering some commentary on each one. It's a great set of resources that maintain what I think is the essential flavor of the game¸ but allow people to branch out and deepen some of the fundamental aspects of it. For gaming groups that really like to dig into the nitty-gritty of combat¸ this is a great set of ideas for how to do it." - Matt Finch