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Old 06-29-2009, 11:30 AM   #25
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Default Re: DF Town near Dungeon online resource

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Originally Posted by b-dog View Post
If you practice something enough you get really good at it.
Again, what a lumberjack does with an axe bears little resemblance to what a warrior does. What practice does a lumberjack have with parrying? Parrying may be half of the rolls one makes with a weapon, but a lumberjack doesn't do it at all. What practice does he have with feinting? Choking up into a defensive grip? Swinging the axe while stepping forward to close with a target or get room for a better defense? Doing deceptive attacks or rapid strikes? Swinging the weapon is an important part of a weapon skill, but it's less than half of what one does with it.
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