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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7570448" data-attributes="member: 4937">One thing that I find if you start attempting to model the various factors involved somewhat reasonably is that what works on a battlefield doesn't always work for someone whose job is to explore steaming jungles, trap filled tombs, lightless caves, and reeking mires.&nbsp; One advantage that swords have over pole axes, however much all other things being equal on a tournament floor the pole axe wielder has the advantage of the sword wielder, is that swords are ever so much wieldier than pole arms.&nbsp; A soldier can put an axe over his shoulder and march, and fight on a battlefield, but I dare you to be doing what my players have to do wearing plate armor and carrying a pole axe.&nbsp; You just don't have enough hands, and you have no good way to store the thing when its not needed because it's longer than you are.&nbsp; You'll find that if you are realistic about pole axes, they are always clattering on the floor as necessity forces you to drop one to do something else - like draw your dagger to cut this stirge off you before it sucks you as dry as a raisin, catch hold of your colleague before they slip off this ledge 60' above the cruel hard ground, bar a door against some monstrousity on the other side, or what not.Beware super powers like 'Invisible Third Arm' (Fourth? Fifth?) or 'Infinitely Large Back Pocket'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7570448, member: 4937"] One thing that I find if you start attempting to model the various factors involved somewhat reasonably is that what works on a battlefield doesn't always work for someone whose job is to explore steaming jungles, trap filled tombs, lightless caves, and reeking mires. One advantage that swords have over pole axes, however much all other things being equal on a tournament floor the pole axe wielder has the advantage of the sword wielder, is that swords are ever so much wieldier than pole arms. A soldier can put an axe over his shoulder and march, and fight on a battlefield, but I dare you to be doing what my players have to do wearing plate armor and carrying a pole axe. You just don't have enough hands, and you have no good way to store the thing when its not needed because it's longer than you are. You'll find that if you are realistic about pole axes, they are always clattering on the floor as necessity forces you to drop one to do something else - like draw your dagger to cut this stirge off you before it sucks you as dry as a raisin, catch hold of your colleague before they slip off this ledge 60' above the cruel hard ground, bar a door against some monstrousity on the other side, or what not. Beware super powers like 'Invisible Third Arm' (Fourth? Fifth?) or 'Infinitely Large Back Pocket'. [/QUOTE]

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