11.30.2006

Weapons for a holy warrior

Welcome to the story, Dag. Go ahead and start killing rats on the main page.

As for gods, so far we're sort of running a Greek thing here, oddly. But please go ahead and make up your own. Last game, gods were arbitrarily decided more for humor's sake than anything.

As for two-staff fighting, yeah, strictly speaking you want to fight with two bo sticks or two maces/rods. Maces/rods is probably the best way to go. However, as bo sticks are smaller weapons, only one weap prof is required, and another for spec. They only do 1d6 SM, 1d3 L damage though.

Maces come in on-hand (footman's) and off-hand (horseman's) sizes. The footman's does 1d6+1 SM, 1d6 L, and the horseman's does 1d6/1d4. They're two different weapons though, so if you want spec in both, it's double the WPs. You can't get extra attacks with an off-hand weapon, so you might not want to spec in horseman's. 'Rods' act as 'maces' for proficiency's sake, so you could fight with two iron or wooden short-staves and call them maces/rods.

Make sense?

Of course, if by 'holy warrior' you mean Paladin, well you ain't getting spec in the first place, so it's moot.

EDIT: Er, just keep spec in battle staff. It does 1d6, sure, it's cool.

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Re: DaVinci Code business.

Yeah, and they're wearing each other's clothes too. The book was schlock but I'll admit a fast, fun read. It was written to be a movie: simple plot, few characters, movie pacing including half-hearted twist towards the end. The whole painting-Mary bride-Jesus-grail thing is a cool idea, although I don't think the idea was originally Brown's.

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