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Savage Insight	Weapon Use and Defense rules...	Lead	[-]
Posts: 116 (07/12/06 09:53:41) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Hey. I just had a couple questions... 1. Bracing: If someone has a long weapon or even a dagger braced against their arm to strengthen their block and the strike hits the weapon but not them, is that still a hit? (barring arrows of course) 2. Strength and Impact (counting hits): This isn't a tapping game, understood, but what is the minimum recognized strength hit in the game? Is it something solid, or simply strikes and is stopped by the target, or do you actually have to get a pretty good wack on the guy? 3. New ideas: I just wanted to know if I could propose a single new, simple weapon, just to get it out of my system (and if it does pass, yay!). Everyone comes into a LARP with their own ideas, and wanted to make my own done and over with quickly. Double Bar/Shortsword/DoubleShortstaves (all basically same thing). Exotic Light weapon. Is three to four feet long with a grip in the middle, often dual wielded with stabbing tips. Never used to lean on (no weapons ever should be but still). Favored by more militant dextrous classes (rangers, military bards, etc.). 4. Also what is the ruling on double sided weapons? I see a quarterstaff and was curious how things have been done in the past.
MeDieNow	Re: Weapon Use and Defense rules...	#1	[-]
Posts: 132 (07/12/06 15:50:05) Elder of the Realm/Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	In regard to your first question. On the surface the answer is that if you block a hit with your weapon it isn'ta hit. However, the problem is that then people would just start strapping weapons to themselves as indestructible armor. I'd have to see it in play before I made a final ruling. In regard to the question of the strength of the hit. The general rule is that it should be strong enough to be well felt but no harder. As for the dual sided weapon with stabbing tips. I am weary of the incorporation of the tips. You can always bring it to a game and run it through checkin. In future no official shall place a man on trial upon his own unsupported statement, without producing credible witnesses to the truth of it. No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice. -The Magna Carta-
Maltri	Re: Weapon Use and Defense rules...	#2	[-]
Posts: 219 (07/24/06 08:36:26) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	There is a similar weapon on the field known as a madu(sp) it is about 4' long with a grip in the middle, and can be made with a stabbing tip. There is no real point to double ending it, as it is almost impossible to get a down stroke with the weapon to use the lower tip. Also as far as in game, since it is so low to the ground, it usually collects a lot of dirt and stuff which ends up getting thrust into the face of the defender. But as the current elder of the game stated he would have to see it to pass it. Scott
Savage Insight	Re: Weapon Use and Defense rules...	#3	[-]
Posts: 116 (07/24/06 18:57:08) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I actually saw a style of the weapon this Sunday. Someone had made a short quarterstaff to use as a blocking weapon at Darkon. It was about three feet, maybe a little more and gripped in the middle. He was getting some good parry shots with it, blocking with the top and snapping the bottom for a side hit or thrusting with the tip. I'm guessing it wouldn't matter so much in Archaea, size wise, it'd be a light weapon at that short a length, but maybe crit at four feet (heh, still light stabby, which I think is the principle method that would work safely in the game). I'm nearly 6 and sparring trained, so if I can get the materials, I'll see about making a pair. Ah well, this is one of those things you just have to see. Later! -Li'en Also, I agree with keeping players from strapping weapons to themselves as armor (although I see similarity in doing that with an bracersheathed dagger and the use of a buckler), but actually I realize I meant certain defensive techniques with weapons, as holding a sword upside down againt your arm to block with it, or over your head so the sword drops down against your body, etc. Darkon found people would carry shields on their backs and that gave them invincible armor, and as a side resulting effect, banned the use of bracing their body with weapons. If you had a weapon against your body and it was hit, it counted. I'm hoping for a slightly different evolution here, but hey, it isn't my game. Its ours. Best of Good Times! -Li'en
Grim Rictus	Re: Weapon Use and Defense rules...	#4	[-]
Posts: 243 (07/29/06 06:08:22) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My unofficial position is that you are actively blocking with your weaon and the edge side is not in contact with you then it should be a prefectly valid tactic to use your body to reinforce the strength of the block. I guess it's pretty much a case by case situation and as long as it isn't overly cheesy I don't see a reason why you would not be able to reinforce a block.
perianwyr	Re: Weapon Use and Defense rules...	#5	[-]
Posts: 3 (08/02/06 07:35:40) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Probably my staff you're talking about, but it's 4.5 feet long, haha.

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