And it's totally a dangerous weapon type to have! They're really bloody good for a reason. Heck, even a spear by itself is super dangerous. two handed thrusting means basically pool cueing. And puncturing forceful hits through armor. Spears are -deadly-
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Replying to @KelethDragon @FreyjaErlings
Yeah that's why I have always had a soft spot for them. Swords are cool and all but polearms are practical. Other thing that annoys me about d&d: crossbows and slings. Slings are deadly.
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Replying to @BloomGoth @FreyjaErlings
They have their place for sure! No weapon is suited for all environments and all opponents!
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Replying to @KelethDragon @FreyjaErlings
I once made a dwarf rogue type character with the concept that they were a smuggler using abandoned tunnels to move cheap knockoffs of dwarven merchandise in and out of the city. I decided to specialize in crossbows even though it wasn't optimal because-
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I'm not gonna use a bow in a tunnel, arrows arc, crossbows shoot straight.
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Replying to @BloomGoth @FreyjaErlings
Arrows shoot straight up until it's peter off point. Bows can work really well at close range but uh, again D&D has a real problem with ranged weapons as well!
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Replying to @KelethDragon @FreyjaErlings
Crossbows also arc! That's just how arrows and projectiles work!
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Replying to @KelethDragon @FreyjaErlings
Interesting, learned something today.
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Replying to @BloomGoth @FreyjaErlings
It's all about speed and power! You throw a rock and it'll arc! If you throw a rock -harder- it'll go farther before starting to arc! it's easier to notice this with say something like a baseball pitching machine throwing 60km/hr vs 100km/hr
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Replying to @KelethDragon @FreyjaErlings
I read a whole article once about how a lot of people intuitively have an incorrect Aristotelian/Wile E Coyote idea of physics, that something going fast enough horizontally has to "run out of steam" before it starts to fall downward, they can only go one direction at once
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When obviously that's not true and everything that isn't being held up by some kind of lift is always falling, gravity doesn't take breaks A bullet from a high powered rifle moves in an arc, it's just that the arc is too big for us to notice it over familiar distances
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FreyjaErlings
Yep! It's just for practical purposes that was the best example I could think of that was the most noticeable that everyone might understand. Some people think guns are literal lead lasers of some kind so I figured a more backyard approach might be easier to digest.
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