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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dremen" data-source="post: 371898" data-attributes="member: 6773">NO!By just taking into account a weapons size is not a way to determine the speed factor.example #1 : Most everybody here should be familliar with the William Walace Sword from the Braveheart movie. This great sword type was used more like a eastern martial artists Bo staff than a golf club. It was a very close range weapon where the guard, pomel, and blade were used for striking, blocks, parries etc. This was blindingly fast. The history channel even did a special where this was demonstrated.example #2: A Bo Staff or Kwan Dao (Basically a big Chinese Glaive they use them in Big Trouble in Little China) These are both Large weapons than are moved VERY fast. Almost too fast to see.Since WotC could not even get the weights of weapons right or even CLOSE to real useable weapons, where the information is readily available, heck Museum Replicas Catalog Lists the weights and their stuff tends to be on the heavy side. I would not trust Wizards to do the research on the way a weapon was used if they can't even get the weight of the weapon to be even somewhat close to reality. Rant mode off.-D</blockquote>