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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7168581" data-attributes="member: 6716779">Obsidian swords existed lol the Aztecs uses them. On Athas an agfari wood sword edged in obsidian is decent weapon.  A wooden spear has a fire hardened end. They have also found armour made out of bone from 8000 years ago in Siberia. Not so good vs most weapons but probably effective enough vs grazing blows or claws (in a world with no antibiotics cuts could kill).  I think it was more a way go through and invent a heap of new weapons. If you can sharpen t or it golds an edge you can bet it was used on a weapon at some point. Slings, clubs and staff weapons are a bit better than a normal D&D on Athas, some weapons are a bit silly such as a bone axe but I would not be surprised if cavemen used that as well.   In my own country the Maori had a lot of stone and wooden weapons. A wooden edged weapon can open you up (NZ has do some very hard woods). A wooden sword is basically a sharpened club and in AD&D had -2 or 3 to hit and damage. A patu (jade club) in the side of the head won't do you to many favours either and our local museum has bone harpoons in it. Some Maori here also do Taiaha training (Maori martial art)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiaha" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiaha</a> Its a wooden staff/spear and they do similar strikes as some of the Asian martial arts.  In the land wars (19th century) around 1/4 of the British army was here vs a few hundred Warriors armed with weapons like this. The British won the war but they did not win every battle and they out numbered them with modern weapons. Not to bad with sticks and stones and a few muskets they traded for Last used in WW2 when the Maori Battalion raided the German lines at night in hand to hand fighting (the Maori won, Germans complained about war crimes).</blockquote>

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