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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flexor the Mighty!" data-source="post: 7567008" data-attributes="member: 1013">Most fantasy combat systems in RPG are a mish mash of weapons and armor from a thousand year period all dumped into a single point in time.  Swords are prime despite falling out of favor to things like pole axes when plate armor took over.  When you look at history when full plate armor took over shields were made obsolete for those decked out in it, but in D&D its all plate + shield + sword.  Then again swords are Excalibur, they are sexy!  And pole axes are....?  AD&D tried but I wonder what percentage of players actually used those rules?</blockquote>