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| Spring Tournament at the Royal Armouries, Leeds - photo credit: me |
Sometimes you fight people without trying to kill them. Today, that's called 'sports', but in the Middle Ages it was called a tournament. Imagine if the winning team in the Super Bowl was the one that kidnapped the most members of the opposing team, or if the winner of the Home Run Derby got a falcon and a sack of gold coins. Tournaments were a form of mock-combat, ritualized and regulated into a violent and lucrative sporting competition. So how do you put one of those in your D&D game? Allow me, d20 Despot and Master of Medieval History, to be your guide to the world of the medieval tournament, including rules for running them at your gaming table.
