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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gryphon" data-source="post: 427988" data-attributes="member: 7935">BroadswordJust to pick up the issue of Broadswords vs Rapiers. I have been reading all sorts of stuff on swords and fencing techniques because I really like the idea of Swashbucklers, fencing schools and the like. I haven't read this particular Dragon, and nor will I because I prefer to do stuff for myself rather than use "Dragon Says" rules. It is very difficult to rule on including new rules every month, so we agree rule changes and additions only at the start of a new campaign. Munchkin syndrome a long time ago caused this ruling.Broadsword, in the origional DnD meaning was a wide bladed sword designed for slashing and not stabbing, the Brak the Barbarian weapon. In a real world the broad sword came to mean a sword similar to a smallsword (DnD terms a rapier like weapon with a narrow blade and a basket hilt) with a wider blade and a heavy basket hilt. Favoured by the scots because its extra wieght gave it an advantage against the thinner european swords then in use. Not quite as quick but very difficult to block. Users are trained to fence with it, and it was a personal weapon not a war weapon, although it was used as such.As to Sharpe he is said to use a heavy cavalry sabre, or a backsword, perfect for usig from a charging horse but not much use in a fencing match, as it is too slow and heavy.My personal opinion of Dragon? I think you change the game each month, making additional things available but only to the magic few who read the magazine. But some people like that and most have understood that there is a need to pick and choose what things you implement in a game.  That is what makes the game live for them, constant change. Not for me and not a criticism of Dragon.</blockquote>

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