10-28-2017, 02:43 AM | #191 |
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Re: Are swords worth it?
Which mainly says that LCs are a rather heavily simplified abstraction. I ended up dropping them from Discworld because all the exceptions and special cases in the Disc’s fairly realistic but often rather informal medieval-through-Enlightenment society just made them meaningless.
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10-28-2017, 03:38 AM | #192 |
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Re: Are swords worth it?
At any rate, "You can't take your halberd to the fancy dress party" is probably a reasonable statement in many settings.
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10-28-2017, 03:43 AM | #193 | |
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Re: Are swords worth it?
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I don't know any low-tech society which restricted ownership of swords more or less than other weapons. It was more common for there to be laws enforcing ownership of weapons so the king or the mayor does not have to provide them when he conscripts a new army. I have heard stories about Tokugawa Japan, but that is really late and really unusual.
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10-28-2017, 03:55 AM | #194 | |
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Re: Are swords worth it?
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10-28-2017, 04:14 AM | #195 |
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Re: Are swords worth it?
A scramasax would be a cheaper option.
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10-28-2017, 03:05 PM | #197 |
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Re: Are swords worth it?
The same applies to any weapon really, which was why axes, hammers, knives, staves, etc were popular weapons for self-defense, as they had legitimate reasons for existing beyond harming people.
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10-28-2017, 04:00 PM | #198 |
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Re: Are swords worth it?
War axes and military hammers have no practical uses beyond combat and generally aren't popular civilian weapons like anywhere.
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10-28-2017, 04:03 PM | #199 | |
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Re: Are swords worth it?
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