Wizard Vows

[Purple Haze]

Originally Posted by mhd

Blunt weapons? Wasn't this based on an earlier misconception that Odo, Bishop of Bayeux (and depicted in the eponymous tapestry) used a mace to avoid shedding blood? Used to be somewhat common, and I think EGG mostly included it for flavor, not balance (back in the days when there was really no difference in weapon stats).

If you want really ridiculous reasonings, go to their next-door neighbors, the Druids. Maybe no one knows who they were or what they were doing, but apparently they did it using scimitars.

I wouldn't blame EGG for this one, it was never the case in his games. His rule was always clerics were restricted to the weapons of their gods, wasn't 'til the publication of "Gods of Greyhawk" that we knew what those were.

It is hard to imagine where the whole "blunt weapons" myth arose. Certainly no medieval cleric practiced it. Real maces, flails, and warhammers are not blunt.

I think scimitar was meant to be a proxy for a scythe/sickle type weapon. Not that that makes any more sense.