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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 3526117" data-attributes="member: 926">This is, of course, completely balanced by the fact that there are those who do care about historical reference.The fantastic elements in fantasy should be distinct from mere inaccuracies.  Have magic and monsters break the bonds of reality; keep the mundane details the same, or it becomes a muddied mess.       The illustration of the rapier especially irritates me.  What the heck is that, anyway?  Kind of shaped like an elongated butterknife, not really pointed at the tip, and with a friggin' curve on one edge?  Has the illustrator ever seen what a rapier actually looks like?The falchion also irritates me.  If they wanted a 2 handed scimitar, then for goshsakes, make a weapon and all it a great scimitar.  Don't co-opt the name from a completely real medieval weapon and paste it onto something that you made up. I will say, however, that I was extremely pleased to see that they went through and revised the weight of several weapons for 3.5.  No more 10+ pound greatswords!  I just wish they would have taken a second to do the same with shields; there were never 15 pound, solid steel shields.  Yikes! ...and that leads into the whole shield bash thing, where the one shield that, in reality, was most known for being used to bash and punch with (the buckler) being one of the only two types of shield that you can't bash with at all in the game!I was also happy about how they handled the warhammer; they kept the historical weapon and called it it a light hammer, and gave everyone the fantasy version they've always envisioned from Thor and called it warhammer.  My only wish there is they they would have kept the historical weapon's true name and called it a warhammer, and called the fantasy version something different, like a battlehammer or something.             I mean, c'mon, people; if you're going to bother writing about this stuff, do a little bit of research about your subject matter, especially in this day of the Internet, where it's so simple to get information with a quick Google search.  Or is that too much "worldbuilding" and make me a great, plodding nerd?</blockquote>

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