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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: fumbles
Message-ID: <484@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 13:57:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 13:57:31 1985
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
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In article <572@umd5.UUCP> don@umd5.UUCP (Don Preuss) writes:

>(Besides, a morningstar? How would you hit yourself in the head with a 
> spiked club?)

All together now ... the description of a morningstar in the AD&D books  is
_wrong_.

A spiked club is a mace.  A morningstar is a spiked ball on the  end  of  a
chain on the end of a stick.

BTW, I had a chance  to  handle  a  morningstar  at  the  L.A.  Renaissence
Pleasure  Faire  a  few  weeks  ago.  A _very_ unbalanced (hence difficult)
weapon.  To really use it well would require enormous strength of wrist and
forearm, not to mention lots of practice.

Imagine an inexperienced fighter picking one up on the field of battle.  He
attempts to wind up by swinging his forearm up and back ... the ball on the
end of the chain swings around ... crunch!
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