07-31-2014, 12:06 PM | #21 |
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Re: Is there any advantage to using a saber ?
The book states that these weapons arent necessarily edged rapiers but weapons that fight like a rapier that have edges
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07-31-2014, 12:06 PM | #22 |
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Re: Is there any advantage to using a saber ?
I'm fairly sure the "Edged Rapier" is a 16th century cut-and-thrust sword, and is significantly wider than late period rapiers (or even contemporary rapiers).
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07-31-2014, 01:11 PM | #23 | |
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Re: Is there any advantage to using a saber ?
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07-31-2014, 01:28 PM | #24 |
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Re: Is there any advantage to using a saber ?
I meant the sport saber since the cavalry one cant be uses with fencing saber skill
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07-31-2014, 02:17 PM | #25 | |
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07-31-2014, 02:24 PM | #26 | |
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07-31-2014, 02:53 PM | #27 |
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Re: Is there any advantage to using a saber ?
On rapiers: Real-world rapiers have edges. Like swords with blunt tips, rapiers with blunt edges are a weird GURPS-ism dating to Man to Man. It would be nice if we could change "edged rapier" to "rapier" and "thrusting broadsword" to "arming sword" or something, but we're stuck with convention.
On sabers: The GURPS fencing saber is neither a cavalry saber nor a sport saber. It's actually a third thing that comes closest to a dha or a shortish katana. It isn't entirely fictional, but it comes close . . . it's in the game to cover things like sleek, curving elven blades, and to allow those who want katanas to work like fencing weapons to have something suitable.
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07-31-2014, 02:57 PM | #28 | |
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07-31-2014, 03:03 PM | #29 |
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Re: Is there any advantage to using a saber ?
Yes, I would be happy to represent a lot of upper-class European swords in the 16th and 17th century as Edged Rapiers, with a few Rapiers and Thrusting Broadswords. But in a game set in England, I might want to contrast the good English short sword with the evil foreign rapier by giving them significantly different stats. (Ken Hite and Robin D. Laws mused about how to chose what to model in their podcast a few weeks back).
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