Sketch #1: Polearm Shop

Each week we revisit a short skit from the main podcast, a year or more back. In this one, an adventurer enters a shop looking to buy a polearm. With apologies to Monty Python. Performed by Morrus and Angus Abranson.

Do You Know Your Glaive-Guisarme From Your Bohemian Earspoon?

Weapons are a large part of any fantasy game. Sometimes they are detailed individually, with crunchy statistics; sometimes they are merely left as flavour. However, it can be fun to imagine the weapons your character is wielding. Halberds, maces, rapiers, guisarmes, glaives, arquebuses...

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[aco175]

I'll start the debate that polearms should be finesse weapons, for $100 Alex.

 

[Mistwell]

I miss all the polearm choices. For my 5e games, I've allowed people to choose any polearm they can think of, and just use the stats for one of the existing polearms.

 

[Stone Dog]

Curious and not in a place to watch... How closely dies it match Order if the Stick's version?

 

[Morrus]

Curious and not in a place to watch... How closely dies it match Order if the Stick's version?

I don’t know, but it very closely matches Monty Python’s.

 

[Stone Dog]

I don’t know, but it very closely matches Monty Python’s.

The answer is barely at all. Oddly enough the voulge is featured at the same part, which was hilarious after all the differences.

Fun deliveries too, nice work.

 

[Morrus]

The answer is barely at all. Oddly enough the voulge is featured at the same part, which was hilarious after all the differences.

Fun deliveries too, nice work.

Thanks! We’re not exactly skilled performers and have no talent whatsoever, but we have fun with these! We have nearly 70 of them now.

 

[barasawa]

I heard a couple of things that don't usually fall into the "polearms" category.
But it is probably the most varied and confusing category, even for scholars I've been told.

 

[neobolts]

A morningstar in a polearm shop? Surely you are pulling my leg, sir.

 

[Morrus]

A morningstar in a polearm shop? Surely you are pulling my leg, sir.

There's at least one fictional polearm in there, too.