Old Testament-era weapons and armor

[John Q. Mayhem]

Leather cloak and studded leather cloak are covered. I'm probably going to use the weapon materials and templates someone named Aaron posted a while back. Thanks all.

 

[Agback]

The Falcata is from the Iberian peninsula (you know, Spain) while the Kopis is Greek. Both are exceedingly similar weapons (if not identical) & no doubt share a common ancestry. The Kopis is at times also referred to as the Macheira. For the purposes of D20, the Falcata/Kopis/Macheira are pretty much interchangeable.

If anyone is searching for info on this weapon, more usual spellings include 'machaera', 'machaira', and 'makhaira'.

Regards,


Agback

 

[tarchon]

If anyone is searching for info on this weapon, more usual spellings include 'machaera', 'machaira', and 'makhaira'.

And μαχαιρα - it's a rather generic Greek word anciently used to denote almost any large knife other than a regular straight sword. It probably shouldn't be thought of as a single particular type of weapon unless the original context would indicate that.

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

Off the top of my head, bows, javalins, slings, spears, (most likely long, short and ordinary in 3.5 vernacular) swords, and daggers are mentioned regularly in the Old Testament as weapons. Axes were clearly present (there's the story about Elisha helping to recover a borrowed axehead) but I don't recall hearing one mentioned as a weapon of war. I'm pretty sure that clubs were used as well. I believe that spears were often used with shields so the trident stats might be more appropriate than D&D spear stats or Monkey Grip might be a common feat.

Other uncommon weapons would include oxgoads (I think one of David's mighty men was mentioned as using one).

As far as armor goes, the only armor I recall hearing mentioned was Goliath's coat of bronze scales. I've always assumed that King Saul's armor was of similar make (though lighter) but that's only described as "armor" in the translations I've read.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I know the Egyptians used several types of axes. The ones I've seen were called battleaxes, and there was a wierd one with a sort of half-circle blade called an eye axe. I put in the warspear, medium, 1d8, x3, with no range increment. I've heard somewhere that one of the "stock" gladiator types was the dimachaerus, who fought with two short swords.