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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Blunt Weapons
Message-ID: <2005@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-May-85 02:17:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 02:17:51 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

This originally started out as Blunt Weaopns vs Edged Weapons, e.g.
Mace vs Sword.  Bringing in nunchaku and morningstar as typical (?)
blunt weapons is only going to confuse things.  Sounds good, let's confuse
them some more.

The proper comparison is nunchaku/morningstar vs something edged at the
end of a chain.  So far as I know there's never been a chained-knife, for
the simple reason that the thing would be too damn hard to use.  ALL
chain weapons I've ever heard of have had simple or spiked weights at
the end, nothing more comlciated.

Incidentally, LANDS OF ADVENTURE ended up treated chain weapons as a
sub-type of missile weaons rather than of melee weapons because of their
difficulty, increased range, and other factors.

I do agree that nunchaku are difficult things to use.  I've had several
friends who took them up, practiced regularly, stopped worked out with
them for a few days, started again...and then woke up half an hour later
with a bump on the skull.  (This was with practice nunchaku of course.
With fully weighted ones, they wouldn't have woken up.)

--Lee Gold