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Carolean Army circa 1700-1720’s, but if you’re now going to pretend that rapiers weren’t a common officer’s sword for literally a couple centuries then I don’t have much else to say here lol As any of the Marines I know could tell you, they drilled with sabers as a matter of tradition and only...

Of course. Or a foot. And then you do it again. Creature bleeds profusely. Fairly simple, and more likely to contribute to the group’s success than daggers or a mace. This makes no sense as a response to wha you quoted. In order for the first sentence to be sensible, I would have had to have...

I don’t understand why folks want dragons to be in this place in between “can’t be killed without this special thing” and “it’s a big flying lizard it bleeds when ya stab it.” To me, either go all the way to damage immunity unless some workaround is found (and no, spells aren’t necessarily a...

IME the vibe comes first, but players then just try to find the most effective weapon that can be made to fit that vibe. My swashbuckler rogue doesn’t actually wield a rapier, he wields a light spear-like weapon with a long blade that is the primary weapon of a fencing tradition of his people...

Different thing. Those books were controversial, and killing them made it so that when people look for a monster book they don’t end up reading a first printing of Volo’s and wondering what sort of game they had got themselves into.

Yeah the concentration of talent is amazing, and I think that Sam’s closeness with everyone and his dedication to fairly distributing the fruits of everyone’s labour pushes the entire operation to a level of dedication to making excellent work that would otherwise be hard to accomplish.

Read the thread? Literally at least a half dozen posts directly citing historians?

Who said anything about anyone finding out the secrets of the universe? Or about humans being “supreme”? That’s not super clear, because while some spirits were sent thus, the specific spirit that dresses hobbits in grave clothes and sings a song about it is very much of that barrow. How...

You seem to have missed the word “instead” in the text you quoted. You’re arguing against an argument that isn’t being made in the post you quoted. It might, or it might use “broadsword” to mean literally any onehanded sword that isn’t swishy pokey. D&D is weird like that. However, the short...

And the 15th century early rapier is a rapier, regardless of what HEMA calls it. Okay? If you go into the early modern era, rapier fencing included both French style very short blades and Spanish style much longer blades. Both were rapiers.

I was considering getting Disney+ again after a couple years without, but with their recent cowardice and absurd desire to take over even more of the media landscape, I’ve decided to never directly give Disney money again. Now I have dropout and Nebula, and that’s it. Both are well worth every...

Hey now don’t be extrapolating here we gotta only use terms how a modern reconstructionist martial arts community uses them! How tiring.

I care more about what historians call the thing than what HEMA practitioners call it. HEMA benefits from clear distinct categories, but the historical fact is that a side sword, small sword, and the swords that exist in between (and alongside) which are longer, are all types of rapier. It’s...

Perhaps I mixed you up with someone else. Someone claimed that here was no evidence that humans ever made their own spellcraft. That’s what I was responding to, while also going on tangents, as is my wont. The barrow wights were the ghosts of kings and nobles, and the barrow they were in was...

In some of Tolkien’s writing he posits that the Blue Wizards created magic cults/traditions and took students, which to me strongly suggests that the human students would have eventually made their own spellcraft. Additionally, IIRC Radagast had taken people under his wing by the time of LOTR...

Like the rapier was literally given its name in the mid 1400’s.

Quoting to highlight. There can’t be a sword made in the style of 15th century German rapiers if the person making it didn’t believe that Germany had rapiers in the 1400’s. It’s wild to see anyone arguing against the existence of rapiers in the 15th century.

That’s a great stinger* *I think that’s the term?

In a genre where people regularly jump onto dragons and stab them with daggers, you think the heroic swashbuckler will be afraid to do the same with a yard or more of steel? Really??

Birds are scary.