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Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: crkrueger on June 11, 2014, 07:14:33 PM
Title says it all.  Whatever system, whatever criteria you use to judge, what game had rules for jousting (or other tourney events) you liked best.
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: estar on June 11, 2014, 07:28:05 PM
Chainmail 3rd Edition
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: BarefootGaijin on June 11, 2014, 07:40:37 PM
Made it up as we went along. Comprised of DEX checks, riding proficiencies and to-hit rolls.

Overly complicated, but fun.
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: David Johansen on June 11, 2014, 07:41:25 PM
Chivalry and Sorcery 1e.  IRRC you picked where you wanted your shield and your aim and then there was a little cross reference chart.  So aim for the boss and hold your shield high.
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: Marleycat on June 11, 2014, 08:21:17 PM
Seconded for C&S but it was 2/3e that I read. Never saw Chainmail.
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: Ronin on June 11, 2014, 08:29:17 PM
The only book I own, that I can recall having Jousting rules in it is "Harkwood".
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: crkrueger on June 11, 2014, 08:36:11 PM
Quote from: estar;757507Chainmail 3rd Edition

Quote from: David Johansen;757511Chivalry and Sorcery 1e.  IRRC you picked where you wanted your shield and your aim and then there was a little cross reference chart.  So aim for the boss and hold your shield high.

These are essentially the same thing, right?  Didn't they both come from the old Castles and Crusades society?
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: estar on June 11, 2014, 10:22:33 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;757521These are essentially the same thing, right?  Didn't they both come from the old Castles and Crusades society?

I don't about the latter, but yes Chainmail's system involved picking a attack point and a defensive posture and cross indexing the result.
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: JeremyR on June 11, 2014, 10:25:45 PM
Chainmail's are actually the only ones I've ever used (and the only thing I ever used Chainmail for)
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: RPGPundit on June 13, 2014, 11:47:45 AM
Pendragon.
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: Crabbyapples on June 13, 2014, 07:45:42 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;757912Pendragon.

Seconded.

Not only does it have rules just for jousting, but the entire tournament circuit.
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: David Johansen on June 13, 2014, 07:54:25 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;757521These are essentially the same thing, right?  Didn't they both come from the old Castles and Crusades society?

No, C&S came from two guys* from Edmonton Alberta going to Gen Con and trying to pitch their Chevalier supplement for D&D to TSR and getting laughed out of the booth so they retooled it into its own game and published it through FGU.

*Ed Simbalist and Wilf Blackhaus
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: crkrueger on June 13, 2014, 08:37:22 PM
Quote from: Crabbyapples;758008Seconded.

Not only does it have rules just for jousting, but the entire tournament circuit.

Quote from: RPGPundit;757912Pendragon.

Is this 5.1 we're talking about?
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: Crabbyapples on June 14, 2014, 11:25:21 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;758017Is this 5.1 we're talking about?

Yes, but I may be confusing the rules from the Great Pendragon Campaign. I consider the two nearly inseparable.
Title: Best Jousting Rules You've Seen
Post by: RPGPundit on June 17, 2014, 12:11:01 AM
Me too. I don't remember if the tournament rules in their full form are actually in the GPC book, I think maybe they are.
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