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Jake

I thought a mace has a fixed weighted head while a flail has a detached head on a chain.. at least that's what Diablo II says..

gail

I thought a flail didn't have a head and a ball and chain on a stick was a morningstar.

gail

Althought there are probably lots of different names for these things. But I don't think mace is right. A mace is just a big nasty club

Pixie

Where in the hell did she get it?

Rob B.

It's a morning star.

Of course the girl is a idiot because all teachers wear a "Broach of blunt weapons protection +3." So the saving throw was only like a 4 of a 1d20.

Rookies.

gail

Sean writes:
I'm pretty sure Jake's right and it's a mace if it's just the stick and a flail if it has a chain. Also, I think morningstar just refers to the spiky head so both a spiky mace and a spiky flail can be called a morningstar.

Marco McClean


It makes me think of Mark Silverman's song /I Am A Medieval Man/. The kid probably didn't mean anything by it; he just got carried away. Once you start swinging a mace around it can get away from you. They're unwieldy.

Yesterday in the San Francisco Chronicle there was an article about a 33-year-old man in Rohnert Park having stabbed his mother to death with a sword --a rapier, to be precise. It wasn't an accident; too many holes for that.

And /that/ makes me think of the Garrison Keillor story about his aunt gleefully reading a newspaper article about a man who brained his own mother with an iron skillet in a dispute over five dollars. "What kind of person would kill his own mother?" she said. "...With a /skillet/... For /five dollars/?"

Pretty soon it'll be illegal to have sharp things. Or blunt things. You can't get real pseudoephedrine in the toothpaste aisle anymore because they're afraid you'll make amphetamine out of it. Already in Wisconsin they're trying to restrict sales of baking soda because someone might use it to prepare crack cocaine.

I'm hoarding pencils in case they decide to protect children from poking themselves in the eye with one.

Meanwhile the U.S. is still overwhelmingly the world's biggest supplier of weapons of mass destruction, including land mines and rocket bombs. It's time for everyone to see /Bowling For Columbine/ again.

gail

Sexist! The kid was a girl. Do you just automatically assume that anyone with a large, spiked medieval weapon is a boy???? :b

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