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Who says primitive 15th Century firearms can't be fun? I gotta get me an arquebus YouTube - Boom with Slayer

Interesting test with a 15th Century hussite style handgonne, looks like penetration at about 5 or 10', then it bounced off at about 20' YouTube - handgonne vs breastplate That is a .75 cal handgonne or hand-culverin, it has roughly equivalent muzzle energy of a .357 magnum with a 158 grain bullet

For the Neal Stephenson fans and anybody who has an I-pad (I don't): Neal Stephenson to launch interactive novel for the iPad | Geek Gestalt - CNET News YouTube - Historical Scope G.

Ha! I'm afraid weddings history is well out of my purview, that is pretty far out :) Maybe one day I'll encompass that among my interests. Weddings and relations between the sexes are actually kind of interesting in a Viking or Celtic context for example. But yeah fair enough... history is...

Another really good resource if you are doing research on Armor: Charles Ffoulkes The Armourer and his craft, in an online scan: Ffoulkes, C - The Armourer and His Craft (Read in "Fullscreen") G.

It's a good point, though I think we have been through a long run, maybe 150 years? of leaning too far in the "Medieval people were stupid and everything they did sucked" direction. And ironically one of the Pythons themselves, Terry Jones, has written some excellent revisionist popular history...

Ok I guess on one level it's a doll or something, but this 1/6 scale miniature of a Crusader knight is pretty damn cool...

Don't worry you didn't drag me anywhere I was just trying to forestall anyone getting annoyed at me over my opinion on longbows. It's very tricky to generalize about any period of history. I'm not sure what the definitive answer is regarding Europeans vs. Samurai for example, I know a few...

Ok a bit more data etc. On Crossbows. Here there is a big blank spot. There have been a lot of studies and amateur testing done on pretty authentic longbows in the last ten years or so, there has been a ton of testing done on armor most notably by Mr. Williams but there have also been...

Bows are different due to the shape and hardness of the projectiles but there are applicable correlations. I want to stipulate though, that the issue of longbows vs. armor specifically has been an internet fault line for close to a decade and is still an unresolved argument. I don't really...

Ok so I've been doing some research recently about armor and firearms, and I thought I'd share some of what I've found here. What I was trying to figure out was how well armor protected against the firearms of the 15th Centruy, in the 16th Century, and afterword in the 17th and 18th Century...

Which problem was that? G.

Thanks a lot... it's a labor of love. Everybody chimes in with good stuff here this has been a fun place to have this thread going. I used to complain for years that I wanted to see more of this kind of stuff in gaming so I eventually decided I should put my money where my mouth is. These...

Wow holy crap! He must have been related to Rasputin! :) G.

Thanks... this is what i was trying to say. This was also crippling to writers trying to do stuff for D20 as well. I had to consciously leave out a lot of good ideas because they were encroaching on this paradigm, and decided against even doing a couple of projects because it was too much of a...

Actually I don't hate them, I just hate that the game is funneled into playing with those tropes and no longer is as open to other styles of playing (and trust me there are many, many others besides the one I described). I think it's fine for other RPGs to become niche games, and I gather 4E is...

I wasn't really ever a big fan of healing spells... ... but frankly yes I just don't get how "non-magical" instant healing is even supposed to work, outside of comic book or video game logic. In video games they don't really bother to explain much how the medikit or the glowing green dot...

See if i had to rely on a map to answer any of those questions I would A) feel like I was too tired to DM, B) get bored and distracted and eat too many chips and cookies, C) get bogged down moving around things on a board and checking lines of sight and setting out little cones and disks and...

Seriously? How about Duke Nukem. Or Doom. Or a gazillion other games. Your definition that it has to have all the specific features of the 4E healing surge may limit the scope, but what I (and many others) recognize is a quick way to suddenly gain your health points back so you can keep...

The OGL opened the door wife open of course, and yes of course they published lots of optional rules and splat books (though I didn't even know unearthed arcana were actually houserules... I never bought it since I wasn't interested in it) but as per the blog linked in the OP, even while the D20...