Do You Know Your Glaive-Guisarme From Your Bohemian Earspoon?

Weapons are a large part of any fantasy game. Sometimes they are detailed individually, with crunchy statistics; sometimes they are merely left as flavour. However, it can be fun to imagine the weapons your character is wielding. Halberds, maces, rapiers, guisarmes, glaives, arquebuses, firelances, crossbows, and more make up the armories of any fantasy realms. Straight from the pages of [WOIN] Archaic Equipment, the upcoming sourcebook for the What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. roleplaying game system come these illustrations of a wide range of weapons from artist Egil Thompson.

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[timbannock]

That is beautiful artwork. I wish more games did this; all too often, they leave the research up to the players/GM, and...well, I'm lazy.

 

[Ezequielramone]

Excellent. I needed this so much. Especially polearms made us confused in the past, but not anymore.
I'll try to print those and add them to my GM's kit folder. Simple but useful work makes me happy.
THANK YOU.

 

[Polyhedral_Columbia]

Nice! 1e Unearthed Arcana and then some!

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Interesting and handy, if a bit late for me. I just last week spent a few hours in researching for my 1E game what actually is supposed to make a "whatsit-thingy" different from a "widget-thingy", different from a regular "thingy". Where were you then?!

 

[mips42]

The voulge can also sometimes be referred to as a Lochaber Ax.

http://www.thespecialistsltd.com/files/Lochaber.jpg

*The more you know rainbow*

 

[Xavian Starsider]

Finally, I know what a hammer looks like!

Just kidding. Very thorough. It could have half as many weapons and I'd still consider it very thorough.

 

[Xohar17]

Very nice, it reminds me of 4E weapon art.

Just some comments: that claymore doesnt look like any I've ever seen, neither historical or fantasy, it looks more like a rapier. And is Poleave a typo for poleaxe? or is that another name for a halberd?

 

[Gorath99]

I too was confused by the claymore image, but apparently the name is also used to refer to a type of basket-hilted sword used by Scotsmen since the 17th century. Wikipedia has more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claymore

 

[neobolts]

Gorgeous. So many polearms.