Changing the attack/parry matrix still sounds like the wrong solution to me - why not make the weapons more durable across the board instead? Even a "hollywood parry" that blocks rahter than deflects a blow ought be unlikely to break a decent sword.
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The black rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious cyclopean bridges - things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before the beings came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids - ought to be enough to make any man a Dante or Poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell what he has seen.
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