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Message: <blockquote data-quote="isoChron" data-source="post: 1134780" data-attributes="member: 5927">By the way: a D&D flail was called a morning star...The D&D morning star was more a mace or called a morning star, too.The flail was a farming device with some nails and iron bands added to the head. It had a long pole with a short chain or even leather holding a shorter stick. Ref.:MaceFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Weapon) An advance on the <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club" target="_blank">club</a>, a mace is a wooden, metal-reinforced or metal shaft, 3 or more feet (a meter or more) long, with a head made of iron or steel adding another foot to 18 inches (30 to 45 cm) to the length of the weapon. The head is normally about or slightly thicker than the diameter of the shaft, shaped with flanges, knobs or spikes to allow greater penetration of armour. It, like the <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_hammer" target="_blank">war hammer</a> and various other weapons of the time, came about because of the increased use of more effective <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armor" target="_blank">armour</a> on the battlefield. A variety of mace called the <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_star_(weapon)" target="_blank">morning star</a> had its spiked metal ball suspended from a chain attached to the handle, rather than being directly mounted.</blockquote>