You call yourself a Drizzt fanboy?

[Grayhawk]

But do you have these?

http://previews.diamondcomics.com/products/collectibles_novelties/mar_04/08_drizzt.html

No.

But I do have this.

Mine's #3419 of the 5000 made.

 

[Mouseferatu]

"Hassan chop!" (Well if you get this reference, it was probably a falchion)

AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Sorry, dreaded_beast, this isn't your fault. It's whoever decided how to name the weapons in 3E.

A falchion is not a two-handed scimitar!! I don't know why they decided to use that name, but it's no more accurate than calling a greatsword a "switchblade."

Historically, a two-handed scimitar is called... a scimitar. Or perhaps a two-handed scimitar.

A falchion is a sword sharp on one side, blunt on the other. Some are curved, and look somewhat like scimitars. Some are straight, and look more like cleavers. More importantly, the falchion was a western European weapon. Not Middle Eastern, like the scimitar. You wouldn't see a guy on camel-back wielding one, but it would have been perfectly at home at the waist of a knight.

Again, not screaming at you; as you say, you got your info from D&D. I just really want to know why the heck Monte, Skip, and Jonathan--especially after fixing so many weapon mistakes from 2E, like the silly notion that crossbows do less damage than longbows--had to go and introduce all new ones.

 

[Henry]

...I just really want to know why the heck Monte, Skip, and Jonathan--especially after fixing so many weapon mistakes from 2E, like the silly notion that crossbows do less damage than longbows--had to go and introduce all new ones.

Possibly for the same reason people make crank phone calls.

 

[Wombat]

Personally, I'd rather have Gimli's axe

 

[Grayhawk]

Personally, I'd rather have Gimli's axe

Here you go.

 

[Ylis]

Way too expensive for me...nice looking, though. Then again, I couldn't stand Drizzt after the Icewind Dale Trilogy. That's right, I said it....I hated the "Drizzt Series" (as I call it)......

 

[Wombat]

Here you go.

All I can say is...

"Toast me!"

 

[Cor Azer]

Agreed. Plus, although it's been quite a while since I read any of Bob's novels, I could've sworn that at least one of them, and possibly both, were not of drow manufacture, so the dark elvish script seems a little inappropriate. I guess Drizzt could have engraved them himself but that's not something I would picture from my memory of the character.

That's correct. The frost brand scimitar that became known as Icingdeath (It was never mentioned by name until The Legacy, only refered to as the frost brand scimitar, or the scimitar from Icingdeath's horde) came from the lair of the white dragon the barbarians of Icewind Dale called Icingdeath (Of the treasure, Drizzt took a few baubles and "this" - refering to the scimitar as he drew it from the pile. The scimitar's make was never really detailed. When Bruenor returned it to Drizzt in the Halfling's Gem, he told Drizzt it was a "Damn fine blade. Give it a name."

When he lost the frost brand scimitar with Bruenor going down in flames on the back of a Shadow Dragon in Mithril Hall, he was travelling with one scimitar for a while. On the trip to rescue Regis, he, Wulfgar and Catti-brie took shelter in the Tower of Twilight, home of one of the more sane Harpells of Longsaddle. It was noted by that wizard there that one of Drizzt's sheaths was empty, and he gave him the Moon elven forged Twinkle to replace it.

I've noticed that about a lot of the Drizzt images over the years. The artist always draws the scimitars virtually identical. Sure they look cool, but they shouldn't be from a literary stand-point.

/Geek

 

[Grayhawk]

No.

But I do have this.

Mine's #3419 of the 5000 made.

What? No comments on my beautiful, Limited Edition Anduril?

 

[Mouseferatu]

What? No comments on my beautiful, Limited Edition Anduril?

Well, if you really want one...

If it's anything like the other LotR-licensed blades, you paid way too much for a stainless steel blade that most likely has "Lord of the Rings (tm)" written on the blade somewhere, thus ruining the authenticity of the look.

Hey, you asked.

Seriously, if you're happy with it--as you seem to be--more power to you, and congrats. I mean that. But for me, the fact that every one of them I've seen has "Lord of the Rings" stamped on it somewhere completely ruins them, and ruins any chance of me ever buying one. I also cannot bring myself to spend any real money on a stainless steel blade. I know that I'm not likely to actually use any of my sword collection, but I like knowing I could. Stainless steel does not a good sword make; most makes of stainless steel are far more brittle than carbon or spring steel, and would shatter way too easily if used in actual combat.