Knights and Magick

Knights and Magick is a role-playing game published by Heritage USA in 1980.

Description

Knights and Magick is a fantasy/medieval miniatures system designed for mass or single combat, in individual battles or large political-economic-military campaigns. The game includes rudimentary role-playing rules, magic spells, and guidelines for use with other RPGs.

Publication history

The Knights and Magick Rules Set was designed by Arnold Hendrick and published by Heritage USA in 1980 as a boxed set containing three 48-page books and a 32-page book, a digest-sized 16-page pamphlet, and a reference sheet.

Reception

Aaron Allston reviewed Knights & Magick in The Space Gamer No. 35. Allston commented that "Overall, I would guardedly recommend Knights & Magick, but not to straight FRP gamers; they would find little of use. Fantasy and historical miniatures gamers will find some innovation and a good deal of resource material."
Clayton Miner reviewed Knights and Magick for Pegasus magazine and stated that "The entire project has been put together with an eye towards maintaining a concise and interesting rules set with a lot of appeal and high playability. When all put together, Knights and Magick tm has a flavor similar to Chivalry and Sorcery, with a lot of fun mixed in."
Lawrence Schick felt that the game was "Designed mainly to sell Heritage miniatures".
Marco Arnaudo in the book Storytelling in the Modern Board Game: Narrative Trends from the Late 1960s to Today said that Knights & Magick "appeared to connect the narrative lessons learned by hobby board games of the late 1970s with the conventions of miniature wargaming that had given birth to D&D. Knights & Magick consists of three volumes of rules for miniature combat set in a world of high fantasy, but its extensive world-building, story-oriented approach, and numerous possibilities for customization, give the design a very strong role-playing feel."