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<blockquote data-quote="Dogbrain" data-source="post: 1353779" data-attributes="member: 14980">Here is my question:&nbsp; Are all red lights redlights?If history means nothing, then just call all the weapons things like &quot;oggieblodgit&quot;, &quot;moo-wanka&quot;, and &quot;feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep&quot;.&nbsp; Then you won't have to worry about people who've done some serious study making comments.&nbsp; However, if one is going to insist that a specific term with some historical usage be used, then it stands to reason that someone familiar with said historic usage might, especially on a thread devoted to the use of such a term, comment upon said historic usage.Likewise, over several years, I have, many times, many many times, many times many many times many times, seen self-styled &quot;experts&quot; who get all their &quot;information&quot; from things like D&amp;D books come around and try to &quot;correct&quot; people who have actually made some formal study of the field of Western Hoplology.&nbsp; Pretty much everybody who has made some formal study of Western Hoplology has run into this.&nbsp; After a while of being bombarded with it over and over, it gets tiresome.Just how tolerant is the average D&amp;D player of the rubbish that BADD used to publish?&nbsp; Some of the stuff that I've seen claimed regarding swords is on that level of accuracy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dogbrain, post: 1353779, member: 14980"] Here is my question: Are all red lights redlights? If history means nothing, then just call all the weapons things like "oggieblodgit", "moo-wanka", and "feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep". Then you won't have to worry about people who've done some serious study making comments. However, if one is going to insist that a specific term with some historical usage be used, then it stands to reason that someone familiar with said historic usage might, especially on a thread devoted to the use of such a term, comment upon said historic usage. Likewise, over several years, I have, many times, many many times, many times many many times many times, seen self-styled "experts" who get all their "information" from things like D&D books come around and try to "correct" people who have actually made some formal study of the field of Western Hoplology. Pretty much everybody who has made some formal study of Western Hoplology has run into this. After a while of being bombarded with it over and over, it gets tiresome. Just how tolerant is the average D&D player of the rubbish that BADD used to publish? Some of the stuff that I've seen claimed regarding swords is on that level of accuracy. [/QUOTE]

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