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Author Topic: Make "menaces with spikes of (insert)" increase damage somewhat on blunt weapons  (Read 1110 times)

UristMcVampire

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Title says it all.
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Im not sure the spikes of llama yarn is really beneficial to a weapon or other object like a mug, could you elaborate because spikes doesn't always epitomize what you think they are, they could be blunt decorative spikes meant to be used as a pattern to give texture or depth or jagged edged ones like you describe.

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Im not sure the spikes of llama yarn is really beneficial to a weapon or other object like a mug, could you elaborate because spikes doesn't always epitomize what you think they are, they could be blunt decorative spikes meant to be used as a pattern to give texture or depth or jagged edged ones like you describe.
Spikes of llama yarn is stupid and should just be removed from the game honestly.
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It's not that inconceivable, you can make crafts out of just wool and water IRL (felting), and people have been doing it for a while. Having done it myself I can testify spikes are on the level of what a novice could make. Tie them to a string or drive a nail through them and they can easily be connected to, say, the back of a chair or a warhammer handle.

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It's not that inconceivable, you can make crafts out of just wool and water IRL (felting), and people have been doing it for a while. Having done it myself I can testify spikes are on the level of what a novice could make. Tie them to a string or drive a nail through them and they can easily be connected to, say, the back of a chair or a warhammer handle.

Oh just imagine a dwarf charging toward a goblin wielding his warhammer that's all decked out in soft fluffy felt cones of various bright colors and sizes!  Sounds more like a weapon fit more for a pillow fight than anything.  Although in Asian martial arts movies, I often see spears with feathery fluff bits at the pointy end to make it harder to block or anticipate precisely where the attack is coming from, so the llama-wool-spiked warhammer could be organized in a similar way. 

However, in general, with regard to spikes of more dense material, I did a quick google search on "war hammer" and it appears as though all the single handed warhammers already have spikes.  If it were decorated with spikes of a superior weapon's grade material, decorating implies adding to, and not replacing; so where would the spikes be located?  On the sides?  That would require a side swing rather than a forward swing. 

That being said, there are variations of warhammers that are 100% blunt (seems to be mostly the 2-handed warhammers).  In which case I would agree with the premise of this thread. 
« Last Edit: April 20, 2019, 07:47:55 pm by Schmaven »
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DF warhammers don't possess edge attacks, suggesting that they're at least somewhat blunt on both ends.
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