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Yes, it would allow me to make an effective military earlier.

Yes, it would allow and encourage a greater variety of weapons to be used in a fort.

No, but I'd like to see a greater variety in training weapons.

No, things are fine as they are.

[IT 000]

Since when did we have sharp stabby bits on a club? We don't even have sharp stabby bits on War Hammers. If Toady wanted training hammers/maces they would be in.

There's a quote somewhere, but I don't have it right off hand.

[zombat]

A training club would be hollowed and wrapped in cloth or leather to cushion what remained of the impact

[IT 000]

But what's the point of having training weapons in the first place? They serve no use other then to be exploited. I trained in Martial Arts for a number of years during my childhood. When you spar you don't hit the person as hard as you can, you lightly tap them. Training weapons had a use back in 40d when the Legendary Warrior of my fort had more kills in the sparring room then he did on the field. But now? I haven't seen any wounds as a result from sparing.

[Sting_Auer]

I agree with IT.

A wooden club/hammer should also be a training weapon. All wooden tools/weapons should be training weapons as well. It would be pointless to add in both types when they are exactly the same, just with different names.

[Urist McCheeseMaker]

Zombat describes it much better than I have. Basically, weapons can only be of a single material at the moment but a training weapon could definitely be much less lethal than a fighting weapon even when made of the same material. Being hollow is easy to apply, and the cloth or leather wrapping can be simulated by increasing the contact area a bit.

And frankly, the training rooms aren't that much of an exploit. The training weapons have only been made a bit -too- ridiculously nonlethal. With well-designed training weapons, they'd be sufficiently dangerous to be realistic, while still not nearly as much of a murderhall as a room full of sharpened spears.