Re: [HoE] [Goff] Hand to Hand and AP

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>At 06:20 AM 5/4/2000 PDT, you wrote:
> >Yeah, I addressed this question to.  But John didn't seem to be actively
> >monitoring the list as much at that time, so I addressed it in a kinda
> >general sorta way.  I'll be curious to hear the answer too.
> >
> >One thing though - what kind of "standard" sword does 3d8 damage?  
>According
> >to the chart on page 59, a Sword and a Battle-ax do STR +2d8 damage (and
> >given that the Battle-Ax otherwise is worse than the Sword DB and
> >Speed-wise, one wonders why anyone ever bothers with the latter except to
> >look cool or because you're an Anti-Templar ;) ), and the Great-Ax does
> >STR+2d10 (and has the same DB/Speed as a Battle-ax, so again, why bother
> >with the latter...?).
> >
>
>It was probably just a mistake on the writer's part. OTOH...there is a
>templar gift with a greater reward that increases your damage by 1 die for
>the greater reward.
>
>As for why using a battle axe...maybe it's an in character issue. Ya think?

Ummm, that's what I said above (see my "cool" reference).  Although I've 
typically found that character issues tend to get shunted aside when it 
comes to...ummm, well survival issues.  Your group's mileage may, of course, 
vary.  More power to you!

>And a battle axe is one handed, where a great axe is two handed, so if you
>want to do a vikso berserk type, you can always use a fightin' florentine
>variation with a battle axe in each hand.
>

Is it?  I suppose.  Is that clarified in the rules somewhere?  Or is this 
another case of the rules assuming I am a firearms and HTH weapon and 
artillery expert and not having to explain that kind of thing...?

>Phil
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