Which weapon should I talk about next?

[Shortymonster]

For the past year I have sporadically posted on my blog about historical weapons and how to apply some real world stuff to your fantasy role playing games. These have been hugely popular posts, and whenever I've talked about them on various forums, they've all sparked some very interesting debates. Today I decided to put all of these posts in one place on my blog, as well as putting them together in a much more professional looking document that you can pick up through DriveThru RPG.


I'm not done yet though, and have a couple more things that I want to talk about in mind. When I write them up, I will update the blog page and the document on DriveThru so that they're just as easy to find, and those who have picked up the booklet won't have to pay anything extra.


My question to you fine people though is which weapons would you be interested in reading more about? As a historian specialising in the medieval and Victorian periods, there's plenty for me to talk about already, but I don't mind moving out of that comfort zone, as I have done in the past when looking at classical weapons. So, ignoring time periods, which weapon would you be interested in hearing more about? Is it something that you love but that doesn't get enough attention? Something you're interested in, but don't have the time to research yourself? Or maybe just something really obscure that you fancy testing me with?


Whatever your criteria, just post below what your interested in and I'll make a list to get through. After that you just need to pop back to the blog or keep an eye on the booklet to get the updates that you asked for.

 

[KazMx]

What about the scimitar?

 

[raexgames]

Have you covered boomerangs? They are always fun in an rpg to determine the catching of the weapon with a fitness or acrobatics skill check, but still making it a useful disarm or called shot weapon despite its often low damage power in most games.