Kael unsheathes Dirge as he advances on the strange creature. In a bright flash he swings his new-found magical blade at the resilient monster, (hopefully!) causing a rent in the creature.
"Swings"?
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Paper armor works, but the much more common form of textile based armor in Europe was gambeson, made of tightly woven linen. Gambeson was one of the more common armor types to encounter for a long period of history.
Real armor made for war causes very little restriction of movement. Especially breastplates. Soft leather armor was very rarely used, if at all.
I'm so glad you asked! Instead of using dumb torches, which smoke a lot and set things on fire, and also run out and are hard to replace, people used oil lamps with lots of wicks. Example. I don't know what happens when you put multiple wicks on a candle, but it's probably brighter.
*Shakes head in disappointment.* You gave in so easily, I can't believe it.
I'm more of a realist, You're more of a realist? Than who? Me? Lies...
There's a world of difference between a rapier and the weapon in the real world which is referred to as a sword cane.
How can the rules possibly make a morningstar a better underwater weapon than a greatsword?
In the real world, it's been determined that the part of our brain that makes a decision to act goes off a half-second *before* the part of our brain that connects to ethical or moral decision making, and suggests that we spend our entire lives just *doing stuff* and then desperately scrambling after the fact to rationalize how that action was consistent with our so-called beliefs. We know it is the case that humans possess machinery for rationalizing actions after the fact, and we have reliable results indicating that actions which may feel concious occur before conscious decision making. We also know that out conscious minds definitively do affect decision making. What consciousness is is a hotly debated topic.
Dueling already favours nobles, because they can afford to pay people to teach them how to fight. Most people don't want to die.
It was extremely uncommon to chose to go into battle without armor when the choice to instead wear armor instead existed. Armor is very good at keeping you alive.
I've trained for heavier armor with the militia, though I imagine we're both equally versed. It doesn't take any training to wear armor.
It's a bad idea to pound a spike into a tough stone floor and hope that it'll be secure. You'd want a drill for that. A piton is designed to be stuck into cracks in rocks. Slashes on the walls are probably much too shallow and not shaped right to provide proper grip.
1) No warrior ever used a slashing polearm and a shield at the same time. 2) 18 pounds is more than double what most shields have weighed. |