Post by eagleon on Feb 19, 2006 7:02:28 GMT -5
These are my suggestions, take them or leave them. 
Right now, weapon skill gives you a set of feats for five different weapon types plus added damage based on a simple formula. This obviously precludes a non-specialist fighter, which in real life is actually very deadly. Skill with handling any weapon trains the mind to react to differing balances, no matter how the weapons are configured. I could confidently wield a battleaxe in real combat, even though I've never trained with anything close to it (Don't laugh.
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Certain weapons -within- categories are also used very differently from each other. A zweihander is nowhere near the same as a rapier. If you used a scythe the same way as a spear, you'd probably kill yourself. Same with a flail and a quarterstaff.
What to do with this problem? Introduce feats on a weapon-by-weapon basis based on what could realistically be done with that type, and make the characters have to become familiar with a specific weapon type before using them (IE, perform a certain amount of blows/parries). Let Combat Feats increase the efficiency of this in addition to its current job.
Then make damage = (A*X)+(B/2*X), where A is your skill in the weapon's category, B is the sum of your other weapon skills added together, and X is your weapon's base damage.
How does this sound?
Right now, weapon skill gives you a set of feats for five different weapon types plus added damage based on a simple formula. This obviously precludes a non-specialist fighter, which in real life is actually very deadly. Skill with handling any weapon trains the mind to react to differing balances, no matter how the weapons are configured. I could confidently wield a battleaxe in real combat, even though I've never trained with anything close to it (Don't laugh.
)Certain weapons -within- categories are also used very differently from each other. A zweihander is nowhere near the same as a rapier. If you used a scythe the same way as a spear, you'd probably kill yourself. Same with a flail and a quarterstaff.
What to do with this problem? Introduce feats on a weapon-by-weapon basis based on what could realistically be done with that type, and make the characters have to become familiar with a specific weapon type before using them (IE, perform a certain amount of blows/parries). Let Combat Feats increase the efficiency of this in addition to its current job.
Then make damage = (A*X)+(B/2*X), where A is your skill in the weapon's category, B is the sum of your other weapon skills added together, and X is your weapon's base damage.
How does this sound?
