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<blockquote data-quote="Wolffenjugend" data-source="post: 1310389" data-attributes="member: 11069">Umm, what about the Vikings Handbook, Crusades Handbook, Celt's Handbook, et al? Or even Unearthed Arcana, which introduced a library of historical weaponry. I've been playing D&amp;D for a long time and it's always been based (however loosely) off of historical reality. Sure, there are spiked chains and two-bladed swords and all sorts of other unhistorical items, but there's far more longswords, spears, and plate armour. When D&amp;D was created, all armours were not equal. It was a big thing to get plate mail. Why would anyone wear scale mail when there is chain shirt? Because you might have only found scale mail. It's about what's available, not what's optimal. Sure, 3.5 has done a much better job of balancing things in general. But to think that leather armour is only present in the game so that rogues will have something to wear is, um, well, silly...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wolffenjugend, post: 1310389, member: 11069"] Umm, what about the Vikings Handbook, Crusades Handbook, Celt's Handbook, et al? Or even Unearthed Arcana, which introduced a library of historical weaponry. I've been playing D&D for a long time and it's always been based (however loosely) off of historical reality. Sure, there are spiked chains and two-bladed swords and all sorts of other unhistorical items, but there's far more longswords, spears, and plate armour. When D&D was created, all armours were not equal. It was a big thing to get plate mail. Why would anyone wear scale mail when there is chain shirt? Because you might have only found scale mail. It's about what's available, not what's optimal. Sure, 3.5 has done a much better job of balancing things in general. But to think that leather armour is only present in the game so that rogues will have something to wear is, um, well, silly... [/QUOTE]

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