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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6649263" data-attributes="member: 15700">I don't think you ever were part of the conversation, because there's been several times where something you said was already addressed, or you were outright wrong about it, and now you're denying saying things that are quite literally just a couple posts above of you saying it.  Throw that on top of what the conversation is actually about (why don't axes get more love in D&D because they are more useful than a knife in a typical D&D setting) and your constant barrage of red herring arguments, and yeah.  I'm pretty sure you never were really part of this conversation to begin with.I'm mean, let's recap shall we?  To the question:In general, to the outdoorsman in the D&D world, I think an axe is better to have than a knife, if you were forced to only have one, right?You had disagreed (inferring the knife is the better choice) because (some of your reasons):* you may be on a boat and need to fix an engine, screw in a screw, or pick slivers out* made claims that you can't do X list of things with an axe when in fact people do, even when they have both a knife and an axe to choose from (and I provided many references of them doing it)* disregarded environments like woodlands in favor of an environment like being on a boat (which is another odd thing, because I'm pretty sure most D&D parties are in the woods a lot more than they are on a boat)* disregarded the opinion of (almost 200 voters so far) subject matter experts who do this stuff all the time by citing a fallacy when no such fallacy existed.* use a knife to drill holes in a rocky ground when you can't put in tent stakes (which is just plain weird because no one actually does that)* when this is pointed out, you shifted the goal posts to digging a trench in a downpour (which even if people did do that, an axe would be better anyway)* just buy another one at the store (which makes no sense to the actual original question)So at this point I'm pretty confident in saying that I don't think you ever were in the conversation.Look man, you made claims as to why you disagreed with me that are clearly based off ignorance (which happens to everyone), while trying to position yourself as experienced, when clearly that isn't the case.  I've provided not only my own expertise and citations of how these tools are used, but even took myself out and fell back upon almost 200 people (so far that have responded) who are also subject matter experts.  You keep accusing me of thinking my experience is the only one while at the same time just making scenarios up, which is doubly odd because I'm not going only by my experience but by the experience of the subject matter experts in this field.  You should have stopped digging a long time ago.  No pun intended.</blockquote>

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