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Main - Rune Quest
More about shields
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Author:
Bjorn Are Stolen
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Time:
05.12.2002 23:39
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Just some reflextions on shields that you might allready know about. (I'm really in a RunQuestoholic period theese days...)
Most shield have a shield buckle in the middle made of metal f.eks. Viking round shields, Norman shields, Roman shields and most bucklars. This is the spot where you really want your opponents weapon to land on your shield. When the viking reenactors lash out at eachother, even with blunt swords and with no intent of really killing the other, their shields usually doesn't last more than a few battles. Acording to my violent and historically interrested friends, many of the shields used by barbarians and later in the medieval period was made like the Zulushield you've described somewhere else on this site. There were special speartactics developed to trap the spear in the opponents shield, then stepping on the shaft forcing the opponents shield down while killing him with weapon number two (which often were hidden behind ones own shield).
This is why it was paramount to take the blow on the metal centre, or on the metal rim if one had that on ones own shield, and this is why parrying with a shield in RQ is as difficult as it is. I'm thinking about introducing seperate AP's and HP's for shields; AP's apply if you manage a parry, Hp that tap down like in the regular rules if you failed \ didn't attempt to parry, but the attacker still hit on the shield.
I would suggest that a viking roundshield made of ash and with metal buckle should have an AP value of 8 (plate), and a HP value of.....7? A viking roundshield made of hide and with a metal rim would have the same AP's, but with far less HP's...mabye 4.
Parrying tecniques I've been taught focus on deflecting the blow instead of taking it head on. This have several advantages; it can unbalance the opponent, or give you an opening to hit in. this could be covered by the special success rules in RQ -perhaps?
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Bjorn Are Stolen
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Adam Canning
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Bjorn Are Stolen
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Adam Canning
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