17.9 The academic skill of Swordplay.

Swordplay is a skill used during combat to determine how effective you are at melee combat using a weapon. It is used when evaluating your skill at using weapons, your chance of striking an opponent, and the damage done with each blow. The more times you strike somebody or something, the easier it becomes to hit them. Thus people with a very high defence will be vulnerable to repeated blows. Swordplay is only fully developed by members of the Knights profession, though all guilds are able to progress in it to some extent. Guildless individuals are limited in their Swordplay effectiveness to Grand Master level.