u/amazingvaluetainment

I love games like Harnmaster (both 3E and Kethira) and am curious about Riddle of Steel variants. Games that feature visceral hand-to-hand combat which isn't just beating down hit points but about tactics and inflicting discrete, location-based wounds. Games with detailed characters you care about that risk everything, or an eye, whenever they engage in a fight. Preferably games which don't feature hit points at all, in any form (Mythras/Runequest and RoleMaster are not this type of game).

The newest games I know of are Harnmaster: Kethira (which I own) and Sword & Scoundrel, which last I heard got a fightbook. I don't have any newer news of S&S because the website is messed up and it otherwise seems locked behind Patreon, but the public beta looks cool.

Is there any other movement in this style of RPG I'm not aware of? Anything in the last few years or upcoming?

I mean, high quality stuff, very evocative art, just gorgeous books all around. Unfortunately I'm finding them a bit hard to read, especially the cards with the yellow and orange background text, it's like there's not enough contrast. I've been out of the loop waiting on the crowdfunding to deliver, are there any artless, black and white texts for this game?