Re: Re: Axes from Stuart Laird on 2005-02-02 (HeroQuest RPG)

From: Stuart Laird <bugbear_at_...>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:30:11 +1100

At 17:45 01/02/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>--- Darren Hill <rpglists_at_...>
>wrote:
> > Hmm, based on my relatvives, I'm not sure I'd want
> > to give a moody teenage girl an axe! :)
>
>Just as long as she's taking it out on the wood. Not
>on you, with or without an axe.
>
>Hmmm, if "everyone" knows how to use an axe to chop
>wood, and it's easy to convert from
>axe-as-wood-chopper to axe-as-weapon as has been
>suggested... Tarshites, who use axes as their
>preferred weapon, should have an advantage over
>Sartarites who apparently go for spears?
>
>=====
>Jane Williams

Having some experience with using axe as tool and weapon I would say converting one to the other is not practical. What makes a good woodchopper does not make a good weapon. That said, a metal lump on a stick is better than just a stick. As for combat technique, no benefit at all. Axe fighting requires as much skill as sword fighting and you wouldn't suggest that a Japanese sushi chef was a good swordsman because he can handle a knife.
In the modern world, the strength gained from chopping wood will set you apart from others, but IMHO Glorantha creates that in most people so it does not set you apart.

Aside:
Split planks are stronger and more flexible than sawn planks. That is why Viking ships could flex with the seas under them. They were made almost entirely with Axe and Adze, with some specialist tools for the fancy bits.

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