Re: Oakeshott Typology Broadswords
I was puzzled by the blunt-tipped broadswords when I first ran into GURPS, but I vaguely recalled hearing Celtic swords described that way, so I assumed that it was down to something in Caesar’s Gallic Wars or suchlike. Okay, so it may originally have come from archaeology. Whatever; game designers do sometimes suffer from too-narrow reference pools.
I’ve never had a character I designed use a blunt-tipped broadsword, though.
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