Hi, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Jean Henri Chandler. I just found this forum by accident looking for photos of Sosun Pata. I have no idea what this forum is but I feel a bit of synchronicity going on here.
I am a game designer of a combat system called the Codex Martialis. It's meant to be historically based martial arts combat rules for 3.5 DnD, it's really a new system nominally compatible with OGL 3.5. It's been out for about a year and so far gotten all positive reviews.
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_i ... s_id=58045
I also did some writing for The Riddle Of Steel and for a game from a UK company called The Dying Earth. I can't make out if this forum is about a specific computer game or tabletop RPG or generally CRPGs or RPGs or all of the above. Or something totally different.
But I see people here are into real historical weapons and that means we are fellow travellers to some extent. Threre is also the odd coincidence of the name codex. I used 'codex' for my PDF because it's largely based on old fencing manauls of Rennaisance European Martial Arts, some with names like Codex Wallerstien etc.
I definetely love to talk about historical combat, weapons and armor, and people from History. This is a sort of a blog I've had for a while on ENworld, quite similar to the conversation going on in this thread.
http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rp ... -rpgs.html
I am interested in Martial Arts from all over the world and have a particular fascination for the Sikhs and many South Asian MA systems which I am only starting to learn a little about. I'd like to include more South Asian MA in my Combat rules, we have recently had help from Filipino Martial Arts enthusiasts who helped us add some FMA rules.
So can someone here explain to me what this forum actually is about?
BD