Vorput
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Rolzup said:I give spiked armor a pass because it's got legendary precedent. Witness the tale of the Lambton Worm....
That. is. awesome.
Rolzup said:I give spiked armor a pass because it's got legendary precedent. Witness the tale of the Lambton Worm....
Vorput said:That. is. awesome.
Jedi_Solo said:There acually is an event called the Caber Throw (or Caber Toss). Most likley you'll find one in lumberjack style competitions and yes; they basically throw tree trunks.
This isn't to say that trying to use one as a weapon is a good idea, but I can actually see how the idea for the stat block could come up. Not how it actually made it all the way into the book mind you, but at least how it came up in the first place.
After all; what is a DM to do if a party of PCs wanders into the middle of a Caber Toss?
Chiaroscuro23 said:Behold, new exotic weapons for D&D http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~cwd02/zanyweapons.htm
Jedi_Solo said:I'm just waiting for the sword from the end of Brotherhood of the Wolf to make it into the books.
The Brotherhood of the Wolf sword could segment itself out to resemble a whip with large sword like sections. (This is also the weapon Ivy uses in the Soul Calibur games for any who play that series.) And how, exactly, is the mechanics of this supposed to work? Whip chains are nasty enough (believe me, I have used them in real life in martial arts classes) I do NOT want them laced with large razer blades.
Shade said:The manti.
The duom!Hypersmurf said:And let's not forget the spear... with the backward-pointing spearheads! Stab someone ten feet away in the chest... then stab someone five feet away in the back!
-Hyp.
Blood Jester said:Caber tossing grew from running up and throwing a log one could use to cross a moat or scale a wall (we are talking 10-15 foot walls). They were never used as weapons, nor do they go far even in the hands of someone who has spent years of their lives training to throw them.
Ed_Laprade said:But my biggest pet peeve along this line, since the 3.0 PHB came out, is spiked armor. There's a reason you can't find any in a museum. Several, in fact. It guides an opponent's weapon right to you, not away as armor is supposed to. (Ought to get at least a -1 to AC!) If you whack one of the spikes hard enough with a metal bashing weapon it ought to have a chance to be driven into the wearer's body. And if you fall in the mud, good luck getting back up again.
Imp said:I should probably add in the face of evidence presented that I don't think spiked armor should Not Exist. It should make grappling the wearer an extra unpleasant experience. It's the use as a general martial weapon – an off-hand weapon, even! – that I have trouble swallowing. And I don't even mind the double weapons that don't involve flails.