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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infernal Teddy" data-source="post: 2993522" data-attributes="member: 28437">1.) MonksAs we're on "why does every one do Robin Hood england games?", I thought I'd drop something in. I'm working on a campaign at the moment, where the main power is a huge empire that has conquered most neighbors. In the east is a great wasteland, and beyond that is a realm surrounded by a wall. Yes, I'm basing my game on the eastern end of the roman empire, and I know that there will be a China/Japan and a India at the other end of the map. And that's where my monks will come from, because there will be more contact that there was historically. (Mind you, according to recent reserch, there seems to have been some contact between rome and china in the first century B.C. and A.D. ...)2.) Katana vs. BastardswordThe one thing that most people miss on this is the fact that these weapons were designed on different concepts. During the traditional Samurai period of Japan, most warriors - including Samurai - wore leather armor, or at least other rather light armor types, so the Katana was designed to be a slashing/cutting weapon. On the other hand, the Bastard Sword (A rare weapon in any case) was designed to bash the opponent, so as to render the poor bastard in the full plate unconcious (Full plate nad bastard swords were both developments of the late middle ages / eearly renesance(Sp?) . To quote a german knight known for using a Zweihänder to clobber his foes to death "Shape blades are for wimps and saracens!". Just my €3.52 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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