Remove "Fencer" from Long Blade titles
Posted: Wednesday, 21st October 2015, 00:32
Rapiers are short blades.
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ion_frigate wrote:the division between heavy swords meant to penetrate armor and light swords meant to attack unarmored foes is a good one
tedric wrote:ion_frigate wrote:the division between heavy swords meant to penetrate armor and light swords meant to attack unarmored foes is a good one
Except that's not the distinction Crawl's mechanics make: Enemy AC doesn't affect stab bonus damage (according to LearnDB), so a "light" short blade is just as good for stabbing a heavily armored foo as an un-armored one; and adjusting for base damage, normal attacks with a "light" short blade and a "heavy" long blade are affected by enemy AC in exactly the same way.
short blades -> stabbing blades
long blades -> cutting blades
dagger -> knife
short sword -> dagger
quick blade -> ice pick
cutlass -> do we really even need cutlass anymore, i mean let's make the captain's cutlass a long/heavy/cutting blade already, or make it a rapier again and bring back the base stat override if we have to
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