> Ok, well first off it seems to me that a discussion of this may be
now moving off topic.
You may well be right: or at least, getting more detailed than most games need.
> SCA fighting (which is what I do) conventions weight the advantage
toward two sword
> more than I think the real world does, since using a rattan sword
as a blocking object is
> much less difficult than using a real sword.
And so that others can make the most of my previous comments: what I do is steel fighting, with blunt but otherwise "real" weapons and pulled blows. Very little armour. No thrusting allowed. Which no doubt accounts for a lot of our differences.
> I encourage people all the time. Once tried to see if I could get a
full contact trollball game
> together at some RQ con....
We considered real shield-push at some con, as I recall. I offered to bring the real shields. The last I heard, they were discussing lilos : (
> I think my favorite humakti trick is to cast Shield Destroyer on a
throwing knife.
*shield* destroyer??
But surely a throwing knife is one of the few weapons you'd never parry or block with, so how can it possibly be regarded as a shield? Intrigued.. and this is back on topic, I think?
> But in summary here, I'll say that I think Jane and I are in
agreement on how to do this IN
> GAME.
Yes. Minor bonuses, but the different weapon styles are mainly
flavour. If you need more help on how to make that
flavour "realistic", we can try, within the limits of two different
non-lethal (and hence non-realistic) combat systems.
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