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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 4829070" data-attributes="member: 19083">Very cool stuff <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />well when you think about, say in Greek times, you often see folk (in art, books etc) supposedly going for the knees with a shortsword, or saying that's why they wore greaves as protection from sword slashes.meh, that's silly, the opponent would smash your head with his shield because the length of blade is such you have to get too damn close, to slash them on the shin or knee in many fights!Spears would have been used to stab under the shield into the lower legs, hence the use of greaves. Folk think you have ot only stikie mortal blows but no, the point is to survive, and crippling your opponent, thus he dies from blood loss or whatever, is effective.Teacher I knew long time ago in the Scottish Borders, explained that back in the 1600 to 1700s, there was a fencing trick called a "Lockerbie Lick", where they'd slash above the eyebrow of the opponent, so they'd be blinded by flowing blood.More conteporary, a head butt is often called a "Glasgow Kiss".So you can imagine in a D&D setting, various combat tricks/styles would have names associated with them, by champions, regions, races etc.Hm, "Dwarven Nut Punch"...works for me!! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /></blockquote>

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