Tourneys and jousting

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Boobis

An idea I'm toying with is to let the combat sport skills have better knockback. I think it could be fun if the best knight in war wasn't necessarily the best knight in torney. It might even be plausible if you view the combat sport skills as unhorsing skills more or less.

That's one view, yes.

I agree about the best tourney knights not necessarily being the best knights in warfare. That's dramatically interesting.

On the other hand, I don't want to give PCs a -3 penalty on everything they do unless I can justify it. And I have a hard time justifying a penalty on combat skills in tourneys, as it is defintely full contact and it's not like there are complex rules for what kind of attacks are allowed and disallowed.