{{Short description|Tabletop role-playing game}} {{italic title}} thumb|upright|right '''''Lace & Steel''''' is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game published by TAGG (The Australian Games Group) in 1989. The game is concentrates on swashbuckling action and has rules for both swordplay and romance.
==Description== The game is set in a fantasy world that resembles 17th-century Europe, though civilized centaurs ("half-horses") living with humans.<ref name="HW">{{cite book|last=Schick |first=Lawrence|authorlink=Lawrence Schick|title=Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games|publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1991|isbn=0-87975-653-5 |page=267}}</ref> A card-based system determines the results of all conflicts, fencing and sorcery.<ref name="HW"/> Characters are generated using a tarot deck.<ref name="HW"/> Courtly skills are given equal weight with combat abilities.<ref name="HW"/> The game also includes rules for character honor, and mass and hand-to-hand combat, plus a scenario.<ref name="HW"/>
==Publication history== ''Lace & Steel'', with art by Donna Barr, and published as a boxed set containing a 56-page book, two 48-page books, and a 24-page book, two card decks, and an outer box sleeve.<ref name="HW"/>
==Reception== Lawrence Schick says that "[t]he rules take a highly original approach that will not be to all tastes [...] Definitely a system for players who are more interested in character interaction than in forming a group to go bash monsters."<ref name="HW"/>
==Tie-Ins== Paul Kidd's novel ''Mus of Kerbridge'' is set in the same world as the RPG.{{cn|date=November 2016}}
==Reviews== *''GamesMaster International'' Issue 1 - Aug 1990<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rpggeek.com/rpgissuearticle/40989/lace-and-steel|title = Lace and Steel | Article | RPGGeek}}</ref> *''Far & Away'' (Issue 1 - Apr 1990)<ref>https://rpggeek.com/rpgissuearticle/45619/whats-gnu-feature-reviews</ref> *''RPG Review'' (Issue 35 & 36 - Jun/Sep 2017)<ref>https://rpggeek.com/rpgissuearticle/222732/antipodes-rpg-reviews</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lace and Steel}} Category:Australian role-playing games Category:Fantasy role-playing games Category:Multigenre Swashbuckler role-playing games Category:Role-playing games introduced in 1989