18981st poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 10)

unless you happen to have worked for money on cutting trees or chopping wood, i suppose

like if that’s your job you will have done it more than me but if not ive probably done it more than u :P

thats where you’re wrong, i get maximum leverage by swinging it with my psychic powers instead of my hands :P

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Arete speaks of these attempts like they lost a previous life in the process.

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Danganronpa hard.
I spent a good fourteen months trying to translate Zelda Mafia into that, and the closest I came was by making it Return of the Obra Dinn.

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Okay sure. Maybe i got tripped up. But the original topic, was assigning weapons STR or DEX in a hypothetical realistic video game. I argued that a full plate knight with a sword would be DEX based, an a lightly armored archer would be STR based. Then I argued a polearm wouldnt’ be STR based (so also DEX based), and I assigned one handed axes and maces STR. Partly because of the way you fight with them - hit hard, instead of light cut like with a sword. Partly because you can’t really parry with them, or at least, it would be scuffed

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I don’t see polearms as DEX based weapons, the same way as sword can be DEX based. There isn’t that much flexibility you can do with a polearm as a sword. Spears, maybe.

(I would say it is as hard to parry/block with polearms as with one-handed axes/maces, if not harder.)

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also note most of medieval armies were just dudes

lot easier to get just a dude to be effective with a spear compared to a sword

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literal farmer bod is also like the ideal soldier physique. strong enough to get the job done and ready to do that job literally all day in the sun

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go camping with thousands of your bros surely nothing will go wrong

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Ive never seen HEMA fighting of 1h axes/maces without shields. I dont know how youd parry. Maybe cant really parry with polearms but you can put your opponent in a bind and play around that. Most sword vs sword fighting is them just touching their tips, which is also what halberd vs halberd fight looks like. I assign binding as DEX-based and im not sure if 1h axes/maces can bind

I think your issue is trying to assign video game ass attributes to a “realistic” situation

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i gotta say that the owl house outro is cool

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Thats not an “issue”. Im doing it because i was entertained by the idea

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The best melee weapon is point blank shotgun

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Hence why guns quickly overtook bows in terms of popularity. Learning to use a bow requires a ton of training, while early guns, even if they couldn’t keep up w bows in terms of reloading speed or accuracy, required very little specialized training.

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How many
3 on my end

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i have felled one tree (submitting an action at the last minute)

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I do have a murder mystery idea but I suck at actually writing

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yeah telling people “hey just fill this tube with the black shit and a ball then point it in the direction of the people trying to kill you and pull the trigger/light the fuse”

not that hard compared to all the shit that goes into using a bow

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