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NotFishing

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Azigarath said :
As for a staff used with a sword, it can be used in one hand, you'd use it as a spear, jabbing with the front, or used as parrying device.

The front is dull, and wouldn't really do a whole lot of harm, it being in your offhand. As for parrying, I'm not too sure - it's really just a long chunk of wood, easy to beat aside or cut through. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

08-Feb-2016 01:58:54

D F Angel

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NotFishing said :
D F Angel said :
Hamstead


[[no one post just yet for Hamstead, timeskip imminent...]]

But I just typed out an entire post for Joric!

RAGHEHANZBZAMZH**BSHAFRAEMFNAXHCJAFEHDW

*awkwardly shuffles foot]

You can still include whatever you can salvage in your next post to describe what happened beforehand, but uh... Yeah, my bad. I should have conveyed that sooner Hags be hagglin', gods be god damn crazy, it's all happening ogre at Into The Fire

08-Feb-2016 02:00:14

Westenev

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NotFishing said :
Azigarath said :
As for a staff used with a sword, it can be used in one hand, you'd use it as a spear, jabbing with the front, or used as parrying device.

The front is dull, and wouldn't really do a whole lot of harm, it being in your offhand. As for parrying, I'm not too sure - it's really just a long chunk of wood, easy to beat aside or cut through.

That's what I thought too. Wouldn't you be better off just dropping either weapon?

Then again, if The Hobbit has taught us anything, wooden logs are much more reliable than steel shields, so I guess there's that...
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08-Feb-2016 02:04:32

NotFishing

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Westenev said :
NotFishing said :
Azigarath said :
As for a staff used with a sword, it can be used in one hand, you'd use it as a spear, jabbing with the front, or used as parrying device.

The front is dull, and wouldn't really do a whole lot of harm, it being in your offhand. As for parrying, I'm not too sure - it's really just a long chunk of wood, easy to beat aside or cut through.

That's what I thought too. Wouldn't you be better off just dropping either weapon?

Then again, if The Hobbit has taught us anything, wooden logs are much more reliable than steel shields, so I guess there's that...

Even Thorin's log was significantly wider than a staff. Also he's a dwarf. He could block those hits with a toothpick. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

08-Feb-2016 02:05:23 - Last edited on 08-Feb-2016 02:06:17 by NotFishing

Azigarath

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A hardwood stick can crack a skull open, and I have dented my sugar loaf great helm with a rosewood stick of mine. If the staff is a tough wood, such as hickory, ebony or ash, a stave of such wood would be almost impossible to cut through. Even historically, hardwood sticks were used as parrying devices and makeshift shields, even in British India. A softwood like alder, poplar or aspen would probably not last long, though.

OK Angel, glad to have been surprising! Honestly, I thought Spirry was meant to be a saviour of some kind to begin with, I was expecting a boy trapped inside the magic barrier or something, but no, we've got a freakin' giant monster now! I bet the crow won't even see it coming!

08-Feb-2016 02:06:10

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