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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8680060" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Fair enough, though I think that what D&D calls the 'short sword' really should have been the 'arming sword' in effect. I think a lot of this came about due to the sizes of dice available, you had d4 (dagger), and d8 was picked as sort of the 'standard assumed potency of a Chainmail weapon'), so a d6 'short sword' was wedged in there. Actually in the original rules ALL weapons just did d6 damage, with a couple of exceptions, so the differentiation happened at Greyhawk, but it seems like the above was the process that happened. Then the 'big weapons' were all called two-handed sword at that time, and 1e added the 'bastard-sword', which forced the 'longsword' down to being one-handed, etc. The other weird one, that has vanished and was really entirely random, was the 'broadsword' of 1e that did 2d4 damage, lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>