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<blockquote data-quote="Krieg" data-source="post: 2124308" data-attributes="member: 5282">Not to be too nitpicky but....From a historical standpoint &quot;longsword&quot; was just a term used to distinguish newer (at the time) and longer (obviously) sword designs that came about due to the never ending arms race between weapons &amp; armour. The newer sword designs had longer hilts and could be wielded with both hands to increase leverage. A &quot;historical&quot; longsword would actually would more accurately correspond to a D&amp;D bastard sword or even greatsword. Likewise, the D&amp;D longsword would actually have been referred to as a short sword after the introduction of longer blades or as just a &quot;sword&quot; prior.Similarly &quot;broadsword&quot; was a later term invented by Elizabethan scholars to distinguinish the relatively narrow blades of the age from their wider predecessors.From a purely period standpoint broadsword &amp; longsword were terms that never saw use at the same time and their usage in RPGs in general (and D&amp;D specifically) has little correlation with their real world counterparts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Krieg, post: 2124308, member: 5282"] Not to be too nitpicky but.... From a historical standpoint "longsword" was just a term used to distinguish newer (at the time) and longer (obviously) sword designs that came about due to the never ending arms race between weapons & armour. The newer sword designs had longer hilts and could be wielded with both hands to increase leverage. A "historical" longsword would actually would more accurately correspond to a D&D bastard sword or even greatsword. Likewise, the D&D longsword would actually have been referred to as a short sword after the introduction of longer blades or as just a "sword" prior. Similarly "broadsword" was a later term invented by Elizabethan scholars to distinguinish the relatively narrow blades of the age from their wider predecessors. From a purely period standpoint broadsword & longsword were terms that never saw use at the same time and their usage in RPGs in general (and D&D specifically) has little correlation with their real world counterparts. [/QUOTE]

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