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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 5832275" data-attributes="member: 1879">In a game that doesn't track the difference between getting whacked with a club and stabbed with a spear, or between spending two weeks sleeping rough in ditches and eating old uncooked iron rations vs getting bed rest and plentiful hot food as they impact fighting ability: What is to be gained by differeantiating between a epee and a rapier? Or a medieval archers short sowrd and a roman legionairres gladius? (And are we talking about the bronze gladius or the steel gladius? And the classic leaf bladed pattern, the middle pattern or the gladius hispanica?)Swords are not 300 distinct archtypes, there was no clear line of demarcation between the broad sword, long sword and bastard sword excpet in game books. Sowrd technology varied continuously based on local materials, skill of the craftsman, popular fighting styles, the armour they were intended to face and even sumptuary laws, not to mention who was buying them and for what purpose. I think on the whole it would be better for the weapons system to provide a few iconic types of weapons (Short sword, long sword, great sword, spear, bow, club, etc) which can then be expanded upon with a modular system of attributes. The attributes can then illustrated with specific real world examples.EG: We take a long sword and apply a "Fencing weapon" mod to it, it now has reduced weapon speed, but is less effective vs heavy armour. We call it a Rapier. You can also apply the "No edge, sharp tip" mod and it becomes and epee and changes from a 19-20 crit range to a x3 crit. We give it a chisel tip to allow it to penetrate heavy armour and it becomes an exotic weapon for which we hold up the 'Estoc' as an example. I'll leave the build-your-own-polearm table to others. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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