TheCosmicKid
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[MENTION=6704184]doctorbadwolf[/MENTION], have you ever read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell? Or The Magicians? Or The Name of the Wind? Or A Wizard of Earthsea?
Interesting that it's dated 1707. Because of the Act of Union?And if you scroll a bit down you get a link to a penny which stopped a musket ball
http://waterloo200.org/200-object/penny-dented-by-a-bullet/
@doctorbadwolf, have you ever read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell? Or The Magicians? Or The Name of the Wind? Or A Wizard of Earthsea?
Pirate vs. knight? How is that not just: "Can the pirate push the knight overboard before he is brutally murdered?"
In Eberron? Thunderstorm. Albeit one that with the right preparation and reagents (and Igor raising the copper rod on the roof) can be harnessed.So because the source of the power is "magic", it's automatically fantasy? If we called electricity "magic" would our own world be fantastical? Because that's really the question here: is magic in this setting treated as something regular and functional like electricity, or is it treated as something mystical and numinous like a thunderstorm?
Show me a video of brigandine, leather or chainmail stopping a bullet or stop talking nonsense about how armour works vs. musket shot.
Rpgs always use flintlock - nothing earlier.
Medieval plate wasn't used against firearms except for a vanishingly short period of history and of course there were Japanese varieties for as very short period as well.
Plate died off as it didn't stop people dying, or being badly wounded with any reliability against firearms.
I'm ex-military and an enthusiast whose seen demo's live, not just old videos with optimal conditions for the armour as part of the setup. There is a significant different between 14th century medieval plate and proofed plate. Proofed is very heavy. Just try melee'ing in proofed full-plate of proof like an rpg character does, or even worse, adventure for a day and you'll see for yourself - or merely walk about with similar weight in webbing.
Plus of course the 'armour worked against firearms' ALWAYS points out the handily chosen cherry picked corner case of reinforced plate and very early guns - it never talks about every other type of armour.
Show me a video of brigandine, leather or chainmail stopping a bullet or stop talking nonsense about how armour works vs. musket shot.