On Swords, Blades and the Song of Swords

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by aesir23

Another essential thing about Dao that GURPS overlooked is that the handle is almost always long enough to allow two-handed use. When using the Dao, we have a second hand on the handle (or the back of the blade) as often as not.

So I would also argue for a second stat-line for the Dao used two handed, which should by no means be treated as Unbalanced.

If you look at the first page of this thread, you'll see that I do just that on the table there. I use the names 'Large Falchion' and 'Great Falchion' (depending on size), because it really doesn't matter whether it's a European or Chinese weapon, it will have more or less the same stats.