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Why would a "modern" fantasy world with firearms still have swords and plate mail?
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<blockquote data-quote="Humanophile" data-source="post: 163505" data-attributes="member: 1049"><p>For the large part, I'd have to say no, but not for the reasons everyone else is saying.</p><p></p><p>I'm, assuming that by modern fantasy, you mean more Shadowrun than Final Fantasy. And assuming a roughly similar culture to ours, you can probably go about day to day business without being armed. In that case, if you do have a weapon for backup, it'd probably be something small and concealable as opposed to something meant to advertise that you're ready for a fight. So plate armor and swords are right out for most anyone who doesn't want a confrontation from your campaign's equivalent of John Law.</p><p></p><p>OTOH, if you're properly trained, there are several circumstances even today where a trained melee fighter could outdo a gunman, and if close combat was better against magic, all the better. Still, while I think that police officers and soldiers would carry swords, I don't quite see plate armor making a showing. Plate armor versus the more common guns puts you at too much of a disadvantage, so armor is more likely to be light unless you're specifically suiting up to kick demon ass. Maybe not even then, as you'll have to close with said demnos, quite likely armed ones.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Humanophile, post: 163505, member: 1049"] For the large part, I'd have to say no, but not for the reasons everyone else is saying. I'm, assuming that by modern fantasy, you mean more Shadowrun than Final Fantasy. And assuming a roughly similar culture to ours, you can probably go about day to day business without being armed. In that case, if you do have a weapon for backup, it'd probably be something small and concealable as opposed to something meant to advertise that you're ready for a fight. So plate armor and swords are right out for most anyone who doesn't want a confrontation from your campaign's equivalent of John Law. OTOH, if you're properly trained, there are several circumstances even today where a trained melee fighter could outdo a gunman, and if close combat was better against magic, all the better. Still, while I think that police officers and soldiers would carry swords, I don't quite see plate armor making a showing. Plate armor versus the more common guns puts you at too much of a disadvantage, so armor is more likely to be light unless you're specifically suiting up to kick demon ass. Maybe not even then, as you'll have to close with said demnos, quite likely armed ones. [/QUOTE]
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