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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 3691602" data-attributes="member: 28553">Yeah, Tripod is a travesty.  But you can just copy the URLs into your browser, and they work fine.I'm not really convinced on that score.  The more I see of historical weapons and armor, the more I think stylistic variations are more a cultural than practical thing.  To be honest, some of the weapons people have really, actually used throughout history make spiked chains look perfectly reasonable.Also, I generally expect a different level of craftsmanship and manufacturing capacity from D&D cultures than I do from real ones.  In most D&D settings, the age of swords and armor isn't something that's been going on for just the past few centuries since people learned to work metals, and will end in the next few generations after somebody discovers gunpowder.  Generally, this stuff has been going on for thousands of years.  They didn't just learn to forge steel; they've moved on to mithril and adamantine.  They've got dwarves.  I kind of assume they've gone places in their armor designs that we never had a chance to.So when I see <a href="http://i10.tinypic.com/4q5ws8y.jpg" target="_blank">"A Paladin in Hell"</a>, I can't look at that armor as piece of perfectly logical convergent evolution of mounted warriors' gear; I just feel like the dude came from Europe, Earth instead of Greyhawk, Oerth.All of which doesn't mean it's not a completely freaking classic image.  I mean, hell, everyone here knew exactly what illustration mhacdebhandia was referring to, because we damn well remembered the thing, even if it's been decades since we saw it.I've been confused by the phenomenon, myself, and this is the best explaination I can come up with, too.  It's "anime" because that's a word some folks already come to associate with a style of fantasy art that's unfamiliar and unappealing to them.</blockquote>

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