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Old 06-29-2009, 05:56 PM   #29
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Default Re: DF Town near Dungeon online resource

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Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company View Post
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.
I think you would be very surprised how coordinated you can become with something like swinging an axe at trees repeatedly for years on end. People work these kinds of jobs are much more coordinated than people think.
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