Re: weapon list to peruse

[Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>]

nit picking is good..too bad this wasn't done a damn month ago. =)

> Well, as long as we're nitpicking... :)
> 
> I noticed that the damage for Javelins was cut back to 1d6, (and given
> a damage for use in HtH combat) to put it on par with a spear, and
> that the 1d8 was given to the atlatl/javelin combination. Was this 
> intentional? The description of the atlatl says that it allows the thrower
> to throw the javelin much harder and farther. The latter is certainly
> true, with a doubled range, but an extra 2 points of max damage does not
> seem to be a comparative increase in damage. Simple physics (which I'm
> assuming we are still using on Jaern ;) dictates that something thrown
> to travel twice as far will have significantly more velocity, and by that
> more momentum, and therfore will impact whatever it hits much harder,
> i.e. be significantly more damaging.

I'm fine with upping the damage.  reason I left it at a d8 is a)
game balance.  its ugly to have a cheap and common weapon that does
a d10.  The only other weapons that do that much damage cost a pile.
b) to use an atlatl you have to use a slightly smaller javelin.

> 
> Just idle ramblings on that subject.
> 
> A couple other things... From what i've read about atlatls, they require
> a bit of practice to become proficient enough to be effective with them. It's
> not like picking up a hammer or sword, and swinging it at the bad guy. 
> We don't really have a system in AQ to cover this, but such a weapon would
> be very difficult to use by the untrained goober.

*nod* agreed, and if it is difficult to come up with such a mechanism
we can just drop the weapon, lord knows I've dropped others for this
reason.

Temp skill cost of about 300 on it, it is a bitch to learn and fairly
unintuitive.  


> 
> Final item I notices was that Maroglaves have the same damage for thrusting
> as they do for impaling. Is this intentional, or an oversight?

because in the manuel their impale is a d3.  Its the same attack form
i.e. you are holding it out for them to run into instead of them
getting poked.  Or possibly you are poking them with it at a run.
Regardless its the same attack form.


Wright

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