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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sekhmet" data-source="post: 5642007" data-attributes="member: 97602">With weapons, it's tough. There is some evidence in history of men wearing non-standard, or altered armor into combat, and it's absolutely fine. If you want to wear "leather armor" that is really just several dozen cured and stiffened leather belts, that's just fine. However, weapons have been truly designed to be effective in only such a manner as their presented. A wrench is not a combat weapon - it's improvised, and for a reason. It has neither the reach, the balance, or the heft required to be an effective combat tool.  Now, I'm not saying it wouldn't hurt to get hit in the head with a wrench (I know that one first hand), but I'm also saying that it shouldn't be the first thing you go for when you need to defend yourself.  I'm all for slight reskinning of weapons (winged axes instead of bearded axes, spears without metal tips, longknives being used in place of daggers (the difference of 3" and a single edge instead of a double sided blade). It doesn't change the use of the weapon, just the appearance. With the case of the fantastic throwing weapons, if we examine the caber from Beastmaster, we can find it's really just a discus, which we can equate to a shuriken. Thats fine. Same type of damage, same style of combat, just slightly different look.</blockquote>