STEEL & SURVIVAL - Block, Dodge, Parry Zine #01

This 28-page supplement explores the practical realities of adventuring gear and tactical combat. It's less about adding complexity for its own sake and more about giving your equipment and environment meaningful presence at the table.

What's Inside:

The Expanded Arsenal

• New weapon properties: concealable, flexible, hook, silent, restraining, siege
• Armor variants that affect movement, stealth, and rest
• Piecemeal equipment (helmets, bracers, greaves) for targeted protection

The Weight of Survival

• Expanded gear options with meaningful trade-offs
• Usage Die system for tracking degrading tools and ammunition
• Consumables from field medicine to combat alchemy

Maintenance & Manufacture

• Field repair mechanics that produce fragile equipment
• Battle preparations: sharpen blades, reinforce armor, grease metal
• Crafting system for arrows, bandages, antidotes, and improvised weapons

Tactical Warfare

• 19 terrain combat modifiers that change how fights play out
• Water combat rules with air slot tracking
• Environmental hazards, elevation advantages, and visibility conditions
• Dueling system for formal one-on-one challenges

Ideas & Inspiration

• 40 ready-to-use seeds across 8 categories
• NPCs, monsters, plot hooks, dungeon rooms, and more

This is a toolbox, not a rulebook. Pick what works for your table. Leave what doesn't. Fiction comes first: these rules serve the story.

Compatible with Block, Dodge, Parry and games in the Into the Odd/Cairn family.