lukelightning
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Mad Mac said:
Other than the quarterstaff, of course!
Top 10 odd D&D weapons
Other than the quarterstaff, of course!
painandgreed
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Trouble is that everything you google is either a gaming article or an easily edited wiki where I could create just about anything I wanted just to settle andargument.blargney the second said:
lukelightning
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painandgreed said:
A mercurial greatsword could be used to hunt birds or small animals too, but they never were.
CRGreathouse
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VirgilCaine said:
Long, since they need to discourage large monsters from swallowing you whole. Probably as long as 2". On armor designed for footmen, the spikes on the upper half of the body would be curved downward to reduce the amount of force they'd catch on a typical blow; for horseman armor, only the upper portion would have spikes (to protect the horse as well as to avoid trapping a blow).
Smaller spikes resembling boss spikes could be set on places that aren't typically hit, as they'd be needed only to hurt grapplers and the like. Placing these so as to avoid restricting movement would be a major design point, and probably most of the expense of adding them.
Why, what are your thoughts on spiked armor? I'd be happy for any advice you could give.
You have to remember, this is for ingesting (eating, drinking, swallowing) not for dermal contact (on or through the skin), or contact to the eyes. Being hit by a sword that breaks and splashes on you is not highly toxic. At most, dermal contact will cause redness and irritation. Sometimes working in the environmental engineering business, with access to Material Safety Data Sheets actually proves useful in gaming.DreadPirateMurphy said:
Snapdragyn
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shilsen said:
Ah, good to have the insights of someone who has seen the weapon in use. I was going from the linked article which mentioned deftness as more important than strength in use.
shilsen said:
How long is it, though? The article said 5 1/2' at most. Perhaps this is one of those areas where D&D physics (where a greatsword or rapier has no reach) has to outweigh RL physics for game consistencey? (I could certainly be persuaded otherwise on this, however.)
frankthedm
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Maybe the whip-like mechanics would better fit the weapon? Something that flexible is going to choke on armor, no damage on anyone wearing metal armor or on natural armor over 3. I'd be cool with it being a finess weapon.Snapdragyn said:
Reach? no, those are sword length.
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kigmatzomat
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painandgreed said:
I'll see if I can find the notes but I did actually find the siangham as a weapon. Only it wasn't a weapon, per se. It seems chinese judges had special brushes/pens for their legal calligraphy and they had a big, hard pointy cap. Some judges were so disliked that they developed a way of fighting with their cased pens.
Ahhh, here's a link to a martial art store that sells them:
http://www.hdmartialart.com/proddetail.asp?prod=judgespen
lukelightning said:
I think the Dwarven Urgrosh was probably usable, as would be any other "haft-with-a-spear-on-the-end". I've seen a lot of ancient spears/pikes where the butt was pointed so that it could be used on someone who managed to get past the points. In fact, I might use these house rules for spears:
Spearbutts can be pointed or round. Pointed do the damage of a shortspear sized for the wielder, rounded do damage equivalent to a quarterstaff one size smaller than the wielder. A spear with a pointed butt costs an extra 5 sp.
A spear butt is not a reach weapon, and people attacking with it take a -4 nonproficiency penalty unless they have the Exotic Weapon Proficiency (spearbutt) feat. Having this feat also allows them to threaten adjacent squares with their spear.
Then maybe introduce another feat, requiring EWP (spearbutt), to use a spear as a double weapon with TWF a la Sky from Hero. Call it Double-ended Spearfighting.
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