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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5358134" data-attributes="member: 58197">As regards the &quot;can't stand up in full plate&quot; thing, that's a longstanding myth going back quite a ways--it shows up in the 19th century, in &quot;A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,&quot; where the narrator describes knights in plate having to be lifted onto their horses with cranes. (Of course, they didn't have full plate in Arthur's day, either, but that's another story. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)Another such myth I've encountered is people talking about how the weights listed for swords in the PHB are way too low, when in fact the PHB tends to err on the high side--real swords are much lighter than you would think from looking at them or even swinging them around. Take a sword and swing it by the hilt, you might think it was ten or fifteen pounds; but it's all leverage. If you take the same sword, balance it across your palm, and curl it like a dumbbell, you'll feel how light it really is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5358134, member: 58197"] As regards the "can't stand up in full plate" thing, that's a longstanding myth going back quite a ways--it shows up in the 19th century, in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," where the narrator describes knights in plate having to be lifted onto their horses with cranes. (Of course, they didn't have full plate in Arthur's day, either, but that's another story. :)) Another such myth I've encountered is people talking about how the weights listed for swords in the PHB are way too low, when in fact the PHB tends to err on the high side--real swords are much lighter than you would think from looking at them or even swinging them around. Take a sword and swing it by the hilt, you might think it was ten or fifteen pounds; but it's all leverage. If you take the same sword, balance it across your palm, and curl it like a dumbbell, you'll feel how light it really is. [/QUOTE]

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