Re: GURPS Fantasy Tech 2
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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
This is why I think the rules for, I'm guessing, Buster-Swords-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off in the new book might be appropriate
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For what its worth, it covers two kinds of giant weapon:
- A very long blade, but not a thick cleaver of a blade. Its width is still measured in inches (although more inches than a "regular" two handed sword) and its thickness is no more than a regular sword. This is the "semi-realistic" version, where part of the "semi-" comes from a very big sword being able to support itself in combat with such a thin cross section.
- The Buster-Sword style where the blade may not be that much longer than a sensible two-handed sword, but its width is measured in feet and it may be rectangular with a clipped point, rather than tapered. This is the "I really don't care about realism version", which ironically is at least more plausible when it comes to surviving being used as a weapon... but it's a ridiculous weapon.
Michael Cthulhu on Youtube makes Buster Sword replicas (along with other big giant swords, and similarly oversized fantasy weapons) at correct proportions, out of serious steel (not, eg, honeycomb aluminum or something else more lightweight). And then he "demonstrates" them. By this point he's got quite a bit of practice in swinging around ridiculously huge and heavy weapons, but in the demonstrations its more "Michael getting swung around by the weapon".
And then sometimes he puts flamethrowers on them. He has all the fashion and design sense of a DF PC.