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Kinda like piano wire?

Even good translations miss things. It maybe that in the original sense “koto string” referred to the type of string used to string a...

I don't know the novel, but I wonder if there's some weirdness in the translation (presuming you're reading it in English, of course). I...

I would have to say “no” to that. Nick turns a bonus action attack with an off hand weapon into part of an attack action. If you don’t...

Interesting thing about Conan is the 2H sword comes from the cover art and the movies. In the original novels his sword is sometimes...

You've presented no evidence that your purported "trope codifier" has codified jack. There are far more counterexamples than examples.

Thats because DnD is literally a chop suey of folklore and literary tropes, D&D didn’t create the ingredients of fantasy, it created the...

I, for one, am glad this fell through. Having hints scattered throughout half a dozen (or however many) campaign adventures for...

We had the like of the 1950s British TV series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot using sword and board. That archetype was undoubtedly...

There's also the famed "Rodeleros" or "Sword and Buckler Men" who were the famed footsoldiers of the conquistadores...

The English establishment ultimately derives its authority from the Norman regime, hence the ongoing attempts to suggest that William...

One example in history of literal sword and board fighting as standard (as opposed to the sword being a secondary weapon for a mounted...

Or, you know, every crusader. The notion that sword and shield as a combo somehow originated as a D&Dism is simply laughable.

Chris Perkins has revealed that the obelisks scattered throughout various 5E adventures published by Wizards of the Coast was originally...