Isn't it great when they do that?
Most of your questions I'll leave to those who know more, but this one I've just been looking into myself.
> I have a humakti who wants to use two swords
> (because it's
> cool) - from SCA experience, I figure it's probably
> more
> effective than just one sword, but less effective
> than sword and shield.
Bear in mind that this is almost certainly sword and short-sword, not two "full-size" swords. Using two full swords, one in each hand, for anything but thrusting, is a good way to cut your own arm off. There was a technique that used it historically, with two rapiers (seventeeth century I think), but even then it was a gimmick.
I'd rate it as more effective than sword&shield myself: but HQ is not a simulationist game, and the differences in effectiveness of weapon type are lost compared with differences in skill level of the person wielding them.
> Are there any rules about that?
I'm totally failing to find the right bit of rules here, but my memory suggests that you get a +1 for having an extra weapon (assuming you know how to use it! if not, it's -5 for the thing getting in your way). A shield as well as a sword would also add +1.
> One of the players wanted the "knife that cuts
> anything" and I
> was happy to let him have it; afterwards I thought
> about it a
> bit, and asked myself - could you use such a thing
> to sever
> relationships? Why does the Orlanthi Hunter have
> this instead
> of the Humakti? Will the Humakti get jealous....
Ooh... nice! Where did he get it from, I wonder? Passed down from a former Humakti in the family?
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