serrated blades

[Victim]

My problem isn't with serrated weapons or wavy blades doing more damage or having better crit ranges. It's that most of the game mechanic representations allow them to do so for a trivial cost.

 

[med stud]

I think the extra damage part is pretty hypotethical in a rel situation; a regular, non-serrated sword is dangerous enough to kill an unarmored person with one good hit anyway. And if you have actually pierced someones body with a sword, the serrations wouldnt be necessary for the victim to be dead anyway, it would only make it harder to remove the sword from the wound.

 

[MEG Hal]

Hell, then, let's have a slashy/stabby party! My place next Full Moon on a Tuesday at 9 o'clock A.M. while it's raining! BYOB! Bring Your Own Blade! I'll hijack a few cows so we can test out our theories on what does what to what. If you can't bring a blade, DON'T WORRY! I'm sure one of us could spot you one. Alright, see ya then!

We should have it at s/lash's house it would make sense...and we can have a BBQ after---brilliant.

 

[Mark]

I think the extra damage part is pretty hypotethical in a rel situation; a regular, non-serrated sword is dangerous enough to kill an unarmored person with one good hit anyway. And if you have actually pierced someones body with a sword, the serrations wouldnt be necessary for the victim to be dead anyway, it would only make it harder to remove the sword from the wound.

This brings up a good point; The blade of a weapon is not the only part that can break. I could see how the constant removal of a serrated weapon from wounds could cause additional stress on parts of a weapon other than the blade, leading to breakage. True also of curved blades.

 

[s/LaSH]

We should have it at s/lash's house it would make sense...and we can have a BBQ after---brilliant.

Only I don't have cows. No sir, I'm a good urban New Zealander - you'd have to walk a good quarter hour to get to the nearest dairy farm, that's how urban I am.

On the upside, weekends are the time for my sisters to haul vast hordes of other teenagers I've never seen before into the house. So if that's an acceptable alternative, we can reschedule for, say, Saturday, 9am?

And we have a barbecue!

 

[Mark]

Only I don't have cows.

Bart Simpson will be very pleased...

 

[Angcuru]

We should have it at s/lash's house it would make sense...and we can have a BBQ after---brilliant.

Sheer, Unadulterated Brilliance!

Only I don't have cows.

On the upside, weekends are the time for my sisters to haul vast hordes of other teenagers I've never seen before into the house. So if that's an acceptable alternative, we can reschedule for, say, Saturday, 9am?

And we have a barbecue!

I have no cows either, but Pennsy is just next door....

NO RESCHEDULING! We need precise lunar alignment to attune the echo-magnetic field of the earth so that the lamenting cries of the bovine beasts to not alert the cops. If there's somehow a Full Moon at 9 am on a Saturday, however, that is acceptable.