A Warrior's Protection

lol

musty of posted the previous last night in a daze - I thought I dreamed I did it. Any way, I gotup this morning and posted the following first thing,

In a sword fight, or generally any weapon excepting fists and guns, what offers the warrior the greatest protection? Would it be their shield, their skill, their weapon or their armor?

Think about the same in a fist fight and then a gun fight.

Gun fights are fairly interesting. Even in duals, skill in placement of the body could make the difference between life and death. Modern combat is the same way. A soldier learns how to move and place themselves to best avoid the bullet (not any single bullet but you get the picture).

Fist can pound a person in field plate all day long and will do no damage to that person.

hmmm?

funny huh? I must have thought about it in my sleep.

Protection in a sword fight

So I am sitting here wondering, what provides a person the most protection in a sword fight (or axe,knife, club fight - you get the picture)? Would it be their shield, their skill, their armor, or even their weapon?

Hidden in valleys deep
Where no man dares to keep

The urks of Bittenvale
Dig their holes to slumber and sleep

If humans could build this, what could a giant with magic at his disposal build?

The Book of Swords

Work has officially begun on the Book of Swords. The project is an effort to compile and provide stats for thousands of weapons stretching back to the neolithic and up to the latter middle ages. Currently we have no intention of putting firearms in the book. Additionally we are planning to make an effort at created fantastical weapons that might result from various magical alloys, the prodigious amount of technical knowledge and magical capacities some creatures would possess.

Should be interesting. There is no time line. Just a project.

Atlantis Discovered

Again!

Conan's Parents

Do you think Conan ever missed his parents?

Last Bits

I am finishing up A8, The Forsaken Mountain. I always peter out on the last fiddly bits. On a good day I can crank out 2000 words and then it might take 3 days to write a stat block.

I wish I had a program that would do that for me.

That's bright

Superdupernovas? I hope that is not really their name. Naming objects in physics and astronomy is becoming rather bland. HIC 91262 is Vega. Betelgeuse can, apparently, be any one of the following: Alpha Orionis, HR 2061, BD +7 1055, HD 39801, SAO 113271 or PPM 149643. I really like SAO 113271 - it just rolls off the tongue. Then there are up quarks and down quarks. Not to mention charm, strange, top and bottom quarks. Then again, it would be quite a challenge to some up with billions upon billions upon billions of cool names.

Davis

Research?

So, I was over at Steve's last night explaining that I needed some books for "research."

"I need some Conan, Elric, John Carter and Kain stuff. You know, know, those old stories."

"What kind of research are you doing?" Steve inquired with not a little hint of sarcasm.

"Oh you know, the writing kind."

He allowed me to take a few books. So I sat down with the first book of Elric and started reading. What a good book. I had forgotten that the Elric series is such a great tale. I sat up half the night reading. Good gaming fodder.

Elric, Conan and Kain did more to inform my gaming than any other piece of fiction.

Davis has arrived

I now have access to "the blog."

Let the mayhem begin.

Davis