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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 6997234" data-attributes="member: 2518"><p>D&D adventurers are not some gangers who saw some movie and thus choose the same weapon as the hero in there (including holding the gun sideways). Adventurers are professionals and they chose weapons that work. A skilled person with a knife might win against a sword wielder, but he has a harder time and needs to be more skilled. And thats why fighter used a sword or another weapon as primary arm and not a knife.</p><p>In history people chose the weapon that worked best. Only that it was more of a trial and error as we do not have absolute stats for weapons and combat in real life is a bit more complicated than in D&D with many other factors influencing weapon choice. And coolness etc. was not a factor. At most superstition was. But people generally chose the best weapon available which in D&D would be equivalent to the highest damaging one. That is realistic.</p><p></p><p>A 1/2" deeper cut matters as that can be the difference between hitting a vital organ and a flesh wound. Yes, Romans used short swords in the beginning but later switched to long swords as metallurgy improved and that was way before the tech level used by D&D. So another prove that in history people used the more effective weapon.</p><p>So if you want to have it realistic then everyone would chose the highest DPR weapon. If you want a different result that you have to expand the combat system so that other factors besides DPR matter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Derren, post: 6997234, member: 2518"] D&D adventurers are not some gangers who saw some movie and thus choose the same weapon as the hero in there (including holding the gun sideways). Adventurers are professionals and they chose weapons that work. A skilled person with a knife might win against a sword wielder, but he has a harder time and needs to be more skilled. And thats why fighter used a sword or another weapon as primary arm and not a knife. In history people chose the weapon that worked best. Only that it was more of a trial and error as we do not have absolute stats for weapons and combat in real life is a bit more complicated than in D&D with many other factors influencing weapon choice. And coolness etc. was not a factor. At most superstition was. But people generally chose the best weapon available which in D&D would be equivalent to the highest damaging one. That is realistic. A 1/2" deeper cut matters as that can be the difference between hitting a vital organ and a flesh wound. Yes, Romans used short swords in the beginning but later switched to long swords as metallurgy improved and that was way before the tech level used by D&D. So another prove that in history people used the more effective weapon. So if you want to have it realistic then everyone would chose the highest DPR weapon. If you want a different result that you have to expand the combat system so that other factors besides DPR matter. [/QUOTE]
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