Re: Digest Number 286

From: bethexton_at_...
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:01:29 -0000

> And anyone can take close combat techniques in character creation
by
> either expending one of their 'list' ablities or adding '...stood
with
> the fyrd' or any one of a number of phrases.
<snip>>
>
> While its not part of the standard Heortling female cultural
keyword,
> anyone can take Close Combat (blahblah fighting) at 13 (keyword
level)
> by merely noting it in their writeup or list...
>

This is a bit of what puzzled me about the complaints about limited female roles in TR. Don't get me wrong, I would like to have seen some more heroic (note, not necessarily combat related) sub-cults, but as it is....."after his death, she took up her father's iron sword and chain byrnie." combined with assigning one of the 1W levels to close combat would let any Ernaldan of whatever background stand up to most any other starting character in combat. Sure, you may not have flickering blade, but a lot of the Ernaldan cults do have magic that could be used in combat with some imagination, and most have magic that is useful in a lot of situations.

--Bryan