petermorwood:firstblood20:Weapons!Its good to be able to visualize some of our closest companions. A
petermorwood:firstblood20:Weapons!Its good to be able to visualize some of our closest companions. Also, I’m guessing not everyone knows what a guisarme is.First 3 images are from the Pathfinder Core Rule Book and Advance Player’s Guide, owned by Paizo.Last four images are from the D&D 3.5 Player’s Handbook, and owned by Wizards of the Coast.Game-player’s guides are for playing games. They’re not something a writer with any hope of historical accuracy should use as a reference. Especially for war-hammers. Or pole-arms, come to that.Guisarmes, like most medieval polearms more complicated than a spear, are very, very hard to pin down. There are two illustrated in the guide pictures, and neither look much like the historical version, usually portrayed like this……but also like this……like this……like this……and like this……and that’s when the very same thing isn’t being labelled as a voulge, or corsque, or fauchard, or glaive, or bill, or when any or all of the names are being joined together with the ever-useful hyphen. Wikipedia’s entry suggests a guisarme may actually look more like this……which means it might be similar to one of these……or these……which means it’s more like a Russian weapon called a Bardiche.Getting hit by one of these things may give you a headache, but trying to make sense of their names and shapes can do it as well.BTW, I recognise the Greataxe in the second OP image. It’s based on Druss’s axe Snaga from “Legend” (and others) by David Gemmell. Here’s the man and the axe… -- source link
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