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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abe.ebA" data-source="post: 2884316" data-attributes="member: 32545">Preface:  I know very little about real 14th-16th century European combat weapons.First, I'd like to throw a little support the way of big dummy.  He's getting pounded by everyone for knowing too much about period weapons and combat for his own good on a d&d forum.  It reminds me a great deal of discussions I've had on slashdot about physics, so I feel his pain <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=";)" />  I honestly have no idea how much a longsword (or arming sword, or whatever) weighed but I'm inclined to believe 2 pounds over 5-8, if for no other reason than the fact that it would be impossible to keep your belt on if you strapped an 8-pound sword to one side.  I can't keep my pants up with a hammer through the hammer loop.In any case, I'm pretty happy accepting the d&d weapons table.  Yeah, it's completely based on image instead of anything approaching reality, which is why we wind up with hideous abortions of dream-logic like the double axe and the gyrspike, but what the hell.  I'll never let someone get an urgosh in a game I run, but it's a lot more fun playing a guy who whips it up with a greatsword (or even a double-bladed sword, if you can suspend disbelief that far) than playing a guy who marches in formation with a pike.  And I'm so going to put an Unbelievably Dire Flailing Whipaxe in the next treasure horde I write up (does 3d6 x2 damage to enemies and 6d6 x4 damage to the wielder).But back to the point of this thread:  I can't remember the name, but in the Darksun campaign setting there was a Thri-kreen weapon that they made by spitting in sand...  It was a throwing type thing with 3 pokey-bits that I think might have acted like a boomerang.  Looking at the pictures I always wondered 1) How thri-kreen would have evolved the specialized spitting mechanism to make triple-bladed pokey throwing weapons and 2) where the heck you held the thing to throw it.  The whole works looked sharp...</blockquote>

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