About: Bruce Bonnick

Since combat is tied in with so much, I am going to limit this as to a brief overview of how combat works in Shards. The shards combat system is a tactical, interactive system in which player skill plays an important role. Skills, attributes, and equipment determine a baseline for your combat performance. This baseline...

When I asked what I should put in the blog. They said write about some of the system design, where its roots are and how it was conceived. My response was "I thought you wanted a blog? That's a novel!". I'm better at writing documents than blogs. Anyway here goes. ---- Before that, let me say...