New sub! Love the topic, i definitely felt the same about guns after interacting with some. The idea that games could really benefit from making them more complex and challenging.
Eh, not quite right on swords. Swords were sidearms and EDC weapons. Spears were rare outside of organized warfare; too much of a hassle to carru around and social (and perhaps legal) repercussions. Swords were mostly only ever a status symbol in the Early Middle Ages, and that was because swords were a better tool for the role than a one-handed axe, and swords like spadroons for officers (whereas their subordinates carried different types of sword). Katanas were nor exclusively made by master smiths anymore than European swords were. They imported some steel, not all steel was tamahagane, and they made plenty of low and medium-quality swords. The pristine katanas is more of a trope predicated on 19th and 20th century romanticism and conservationist/tourism art (which early D&D drew extensively on) than historical reality.
@@SunnyCress That is a modern myth. Messers and their name are entirely unrelated to sword carry laws. The name largely relates to the blade geometry and hilt construction method resembling that of tool knives. Most places in the High and Late Middle Ages had restrictions, not total bans, on sword carry (and some places legally _required_ citizens to be armed with them on a regular basis) and were largely exclusive to cities, which accounted for at most a tenth of the population.
@@nevisysbryd7450 i was under the impression that (at lease in some locations) provided the weapon had a handle made of two pieces of wood sandwiching the same sheet of metal as a blade (like you see in common kitchen knife design) it counted as a knife please do correct me if i’m wrong, i love learning about these things!
@@SunnyCress Virtual Fechtshule has a video on 'messer myth busting' that goes into it in detail. TL;DR version is, no, messers were legally swords or daggers, according to the size.
expected this to be about video games… it wasn’t put it was a pleasant surprise and something that’s inspired me a lot both in dnd and games!
New sub! Love the topic, i definitely felt the same about guns after interacting with some. The idea that games could really benefit from making them more complex and challenging.
Eh, not quite right on swords. Swords were sidearms and EDC weapons. Spears were rare outside of organized warfare; too much of a hassle to carru around and social (and perhaps legal) repercussions.
Swords were mostly only ever a status symbol in the Early Middle Ages, and that was because swords were a better tool for the role than a one-handed axe, and swords like spadroons for officers (whereas their subordinates carried different types of sword).
Katanas were nor exclusively made by master smiths anymore than European swords were. They imported some steel, not all steel was tamahagane, and they made plenty of low and medium-quality swords. The pristine katanas is more of a trope predicated on 19th and 20th century romanticism and conservationist/tourism art (which early D&D drew extensively on) than historical reality.
people made giant knives since only nobility was allowed swords at one point! pretty funny
@@SunnyCress That is a modern myth. Messers and their name are entirely unrelated to sword carry laws. The name largely relates to the blade geometry and hilt construction method resembling that of tool knives. Most places in the High and Late Middle Ages had restrictions, not total bans, on sword carry (and some places legally _required_ citizens to be armed with them on a regular basis) and were largely exclusive to cities, which accounted for at most a tenth of the population.
@@nevisysbryd7450 i was under the impression that (at lease in some locations) provided the weapon had a handle made of two pieces of wood sandwiching the same sheet of metal as a blade (like you see in common kitchen knife design) it counted as a knife please do correct me if i’m wrong, i love learning about these things!
@@SunnyCress Virtual Fechtshule has a video on 'messer myth busting' that goes into it in detail. TL;DR version is, no, messers were legally swords or daggers, according to the size.
@@nevisysbryd7450 Oh cool thanks! i’ll watch it
Spears are not superior...they are spearior!