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5 months ago  ::  Jan 07, 2013 - 11:10AM #11
Haldrik
Date Joined: Jan 2, 2004
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As a rule, most weapons are about 2 to 4 pounds (about 1 or 2 kilos). It is such a truism, it seems pointless to actually track weapon weight in detail. Just estimate all weapons as if about 3 pounds each. Done.

As far as the game goes, it almost never matters, if the weight is 2 pounds or 3 pounds.

There seems no reason to track the weight.
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5 months ago  ::  Jan 07, 2013 - 1:14PM #12
Haldrik
Date Joined: Jan 2, 2004
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Jan 7, 2013 -- 11:10AM, Haldrik wrote:

As a rule, most weapons are about 2 to 4 pounds (about 1 or 2 kilos). It is such a truism, it seems pointless to actually track weapon weight in detail. Just estimate all weapons as if about 3 pounds each. Done.

As far as the game goes, it almost never matters, if the weight is 2 pounds or 3 pounds.

There seems no reason to track the weight.




Maybe “heavy weapons” weigh about 6 to 7 pounds (about 3 kilos). But that is pretty much the upper limit. With possible rare exceptions, any historical weapon heavier than this was “ceremonial”, looking cool when waving it in a parade, but unusable in battle. Heavy weapons include the German twohander great sword (bihänder, zweihänder), the Japanese great mace (kanabo, tetsubo), and so on.


In sum:

Weapon: about 3 pounds (±1)
Heavy weapon: about 6 pounds (±1).

But there is no need to really care how much it weighs. Probably delete item weight from the weapon table to make the game feel cleaner and simpler.

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