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Grognard
Rules for grumbly, old war-gamers, who still play medieval fantasy miniatures
grumbly,
medieval
battles on a 1:20/1:1 scale but can no longer obtain their preferred rulebook,
because it’s out of print, out of distribution, and no longer for sale as a
PDF.
 
Colophon
This is
  Grognard 
 version 0.11, released 2016-05-30. See the
 CHANGES
the CHANGES
file for a detailed version history.
  Grognard 
is still a work in progress. See
the TODO  list
the
 TODO list
for outstanding work left to be done.
Title font 
:
 Quentin Caps
Cover 
  image excerpted from
 After the Battle of Marignano (1521)
by Urs
 image
from After
Marignano  (1521)
Graf.
Line drawings of cannon firing dowels, jousting aiming points, weather
state diagram, and facing and formation by
  krusader74.
  This work has
krusader74.
been released into the public domain by the copyright holder. This applies
worldwide. All other illustrations from the public domain sources:
Waffenkunde  (1890)
 Handbuch der Waffenkunde (1890)
by Wendelin Boeheim
Wallerstein,
 Codex Wallerstein, a 16th-century convolution of three 15th-century
fechtbuch manuscripts
fechtbuch manuscripts
 The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory
 (1904) by Arthur
Charles Fox-Davies
 Our Young Folks; An illustrated magazine for Boys and Girls
 (1866)
Ed. J.T. Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton
Grognard 
 Markdown plain text  2016 by
  krusader74.
  This work
text 2016
by  krusader74.
has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder. This
released into
public
copyright holder.
applies worldwide. There is no point trying to copyright a game, because
according to the US Copyright Office in their publication on
 Games, fl-108,
fl-108,
“Copyright
“Copyright does not protect the idea for a game” . . . “Once a game has been
protect the
game”
“Once
been
made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing
another game based on similar principles.”
PDF version
PDF version
of this document typeset using
 Pandoc,
Imagemagick, pdftk and
using Pandoc,
bash. See the build.sh script for commands used to prepare this document.
All Markdown plaintext files, images and scripts used to build this document
can be found in the
 
ZIP  archive. There is a spot to discuss this material on
the 
ZIP archive.
the Original
the
 Original D&D Discussion.
Discussion.
Any trademarks used or cited are the property of their respective owners.
US law protects the right of non-owners to use trademarks for purposes of 
criticism and commentary.
This product is compatible with the original white box (or wood-
grain box) edition of the world’s first and most famous fantasy RPG. See
the OSR
Manifesto for
the
 OSR
Manifesto  for details.
 
Dedication
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To K. F., XOXO. Did you know that
 the
custom of using Xs and Os like
that the
this dates back to Medieval times?  The More You Know
And also to all swords & sorcery gamers – past, present and future.
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