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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7634907" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>I have a lot of pedantic gripes with weapon and armor terminology. Slashing and piercing damage should be called cutting and thrusting damage respectively. Shortswords should be called Arming Swords. Scimitars should probably be called Backswords, or maybe Sabres or Long Knives, depending on which generic term you prefer for single-edged one-handed swords. Quarterstaves should just be called Staves. Handaxes should be called Hatchets or maybe Boarding Axes. Longbows should be called Warbows and Shortbows called Hunting Bows. Studded Leather should be Coat of Plates or maybe Jack of Plates. Leather should be Boiled Leather and Hide should be Buff Leather. Scale Mail is acceptable, but I would prefer it be called Lamellar; likewise Banded should probably be Laminar, but I get that those terms aren’t very accessible, so I give them a pass. I don’t even know what to do about the nonsense that is “ringmail...” the closest thing that actually makes sense would be a gousetted brigandine or aketon, but again with the inaccessible language. I don’t think the game would be any poorer for just taking the damn thing out of the armor table entirely since all classes with heavy armor proficiency give better armor in the starting equipment package anyway. I could go on.</p></blockquote><p></p>