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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7100337" data-attributes="member: 6716779">Bows were a very early human invention along with spears. IRL longbows were kind of rare. &nbsp;Polearms were also reasonably rare and were mostly developed do to armor on knights and you had an arms race with things like swiss pikemen, tercios and landsknecht. Pikes were a reasonably early invention around Alexander the Greats time in Europe at least. Heavy infantry was also rare until the Romans turned up and became rare after that. &nbsp;Have a look in the DMG for example with all the magic swords, not much in the way of magic polearms in there. Its not 3E and 4E where PCs have a lot of control over what they get and in effect add a template to whatever weapon they want and can easily buy or craft that item. &nbsp;Common sense wise magic simlple weapons, shortswords and shortbows should be the most common magic weapons as they were invented early. Greatswords were invented late due to a combination of need and being able to forge a blade that long, the Romans had trouble forging a D&amp;D longsword for example (3E/AD&amp;D bastard sword). They had the Spatha which was an AD&amp;D/3E longsword. &nbsp;You can't go down to the local village smith and knock out a decent longsword in the real world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 7100337, member: 6716779"] Bows were a very early human invention along with spears. IRL longbows were kind of rare. Polearms were also reasonably rare and were mostly developed do to armor on knights and you had an arms race with things like swiss pikemen, tercios and landsknecht. Pikes were a reasonably early invention around Alexander the Greats time in Europe at least. Heavy infantry was also rare until the Romans turned up and became rare after that. Have a look in the DMG for example with all the magic swords, not much in the way of magic polearms in there. Its not 3E and 4E where PCs have a lot of control over what they get and in effect add a template to whatever weapon they want and can easily buy or craft that item. Common sense wise magic simlple weapons, shortswords and shortbows should be the most common magic weapons as they were invented early. Greatswords were invented late due to a combination of need and being able to forge a blade that long, the Romans had trouble forging a D&D longsword for example (3E/AD&D bastard sword). They had the Spatha which was an AD&D/3E longsword. You can't go down to the local village smith and knock out a decent longsword in the real world. [/QUOTE]

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