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<blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 5076279" data-attributes="member: 65637">Honestly, the problem with quoting heroic tales of old is that they never existed.&nbsp; Samurai weren't katana wielding footsoldiers until long after they had been made completely irrelevant to armies and war had become almost purely symbolic in Japan - most of the time they fought on horseback with bows and lances.&nbsp; Likewise, swords are a rather cool weapon, but they also weren't the main arm of most knights.The crossbow was considered so deadly and &quot;dishonorable&quot; that it was made heretical.&nbsp; And yet, playing D&amp;D, you'd never understand why.&nbsp; Likewise, composite longbows would be, by game definition, exotic weapons - they were very specialized weapons that took years to train up to properly use in order to get the correct draw, sometimes disfiguring their wielder.&nbsp; And yet in D&amp;D it's a plain ol' martial weapon just about anyone can grab.D&amp;D does not, and has never, adhered to any sort of historical accuracy.&nbsp; It created it's own tropes and then ran headlong into them until they became permanent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ProfessorCirno, post: 5076279, member: 65637"] Honestly, the problem with quoting heroic tales of old is that [I]they never existed[/I]. Samurai weren't katana wielding footsoldiers until long after they had been made completely irrelevant to armies and war had become almost purely symbolic in Japan - most of the time they fought on horseback with bows and lances. Likewise, swords are a rather cool weapon, but they also weren't the main arm of most knights. The crossbow was considered so deadly and "dishonorable" that it was made [I]heretical[/I]. And yet, playing D&D, you'd never understand why. Likewise, composite longbows would be, by game definition, exotic weapons - they were very specialized weapons that took years to train up to properly use in order to get the correct draw, sometimes disfiguring their wielder. And yet in D&D it's a plain ol' martial weapon just about anyone can grab. D&D does not, and [I]has never[/I], adhered to any sort of historical accuracy. It created it's own tropes and then ran headlong into them until they became permanent. [/QUOTE]

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