HeavenShallBurn
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Thematically we were dealing with giants and with a DnD greatsword. And those are both generally equated to zweihander's so that's what I went with. There was nothing to indicate an Asian influence. And this was clearly modeled on a D&D greatsword which isn't usable one-handed as opposed to "bastard swords" and their ilk which were. So I went for the upper end of the size spectrum where this is more the case. I was working off descriptions of non-ceremonial swords which generally were not taller than the wielder though they could be quite tall as they were generally used by some of the tallest and largest fighting men of their day.Kat' said:There are other two-handed blades that aren't that long, like the Chinese Zhan Ma Dao, the Japanese No-Dachi, the Scottish Claymore, and the whole array of so-called "bastard swords" like the Japanese Katana, the German Großes Messer and the various type of european longswords, particularly XVII and XVIIIb (see http://www.oakeshott.org/Typo.html).