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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9270610" data-attributes="member: 2209">I would say that a specific example would be useful for someone trying to actually figure out what you mean by realism and verisimilitude.Citing multi hundred page books in general like the 1e DMG that contains hugely divergent stuff within it, from how to keep players guessing to the defined weekly wages of a sapper unit in your army, is not really a useful reference to explain your specific point. It is just asserting your point is supported in there somewhere. "Most of the content in the 2e era" covers everything from Planescape to Spelljammer.I really like my <a href="https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/110199/hr3-celts-campaign-sourcebook-2e" target="_blank">2e Historical Reference The Celts Campaign Sourcebook</a> but I would not hold up its ultimate weapon Gae Bolga proficiency as a high point of D&D realism. It is a technique to throw a spear with your feet to do the most damage a 2e warrior can do in the game with a weapon strike.Gae BolgaThis is the rarest of all feats, and the hardest to master. In the whole of Celtic tradition, only the great Irish hero Cu Chulainn and Scathach, the woman-warrior who trained him, had mastery of the gae bolga. This is easy to understand in the light of what the feat entails.The gae bolga is a barbed spear, which must be thrown using the foot rather than the hand. If it strikes, the spear's barbs tear through the victim's flesh terribly, almost guaranteeing death.The feat of the gae bolga requires 6 weapon proficiency slots. A character must be already proficient with the spear and must have a Dexterity of at least 17 before this feat can be learned.When the feat of the gae bolga is used, the character may make no other attacks in that round or the next, and loses all Dexterity-based AC adjustments for those two rounds. This is because the feat requires absolute concentration, and leaves the character off-balance. A normal attack roll is made for the attack, and if it succeeds, the character may use his level as a multiplier for the spear's damage. Thus, in the hands of a 3rd-level character, the gae bolga causes triple normal damage, while in the hands of a 10th-level character, damage is multiplied by 10.It is decently accurate to the myths and so there is verisimilitude to the myths, but Celtic myths and folklore sometimes have an over the top Looney Tunes distinctly unrealistic feel to them.</blockquote>

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