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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1196682" data-attributes="member: 5171">Ledded,I feel your pain. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  I've done just enough research to know in my gut when some numbers are wrong, but not enough to conclusively re-rule them.  I believe that a well-made claymore ought to weigh something like 5 lbs, although it will feel heavier than a 5-pound weight because there's weight at the tip, almost five feet away from you. <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=":)" />  But that's just from a couple of historical re-enactment-armory pieces.  (Can anybody tell me if Albion Armorers is good?)But yeah, it IS a lot of work for them to go through.  It would be wonderful if they did, but they can't do it on everything.As for the dire flail, I've used a three-section-staff without killing myself, so I just tell people that the picture in the book is radically horrifically wrong and that it's really more like a three-section-staff with a very short flail-and-chain on each end.  Much like I describe the double-sword as being much closer to a double-spear (which I've used) with very long spear-blades, as opposed to "giant sword-blades with tiny little handle in the middle".The artist and the rule-makers are about equally to blame...</blockquote>

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