(I’ll confess I built the castle in my 20’s, when old enough to know better, it has a detailed interior and everything!)
For the joust I wanted to introduce a bit of decision making, so borrowed the scoring from the English Heritage jousts that we go to each year as a family, as she’s familiar with it. We had three knights each - I was the ‘Lion shields’ and she took the Eagles. Before each run, we chose one of the following:
- Head - 3 points; roll 1die
- Shield- 2 points; roll 2 dice
- Body - 1 point; roll 3 dice
If any dice rolled 4+ the relevant points were scored. If we each got one success and rolled the same, it was a ‘barricade’ (crossed lances - no points, but it added some fun and flavour, and she remembered the concept from the jousts we've seen).
As you’d expect, she completely trounced my team!
The crowd were very impressed…
Archery next. A similar system was used, but she was allowed a couple of extra dice as her character was Robin Hood in (a rather thin) disguise!
(Excuse the mess!)
Of course by the end, Robin was unmasked, and had to make a run for the forest, chased by knights - a series of events that were… less rules based, shall we say. But a good time was had overall!
