The Players Corner Archive

This list is rather old. If you have additions, please let us know!

Also, some items on this list are now banned and will no longer be made, such as the katanas. Eastern/Asian weapons are now considered out of genre. They remain on the list so you know what category the remaining ones should fall into.

Aerienne

Modrian's Weapons Equivalents List

Category Weapons and Armor (11)
Topic Weapons and Armor Discussion (1)
Message Weapon Equivalents (1264)
By SIMU-KILT@PLAY.NET
On Nov 22, 2000 at 14:53

Some folks have expressed an interest in seeing the list of acceptable weapon names we use (for item creation, alteration guidelines, etc.).

BASE WEAPON - NOMENCLATURE

dagger - badik, barong, dirk, dhaw, haladie, harpe, hunting knife, kard, katar, khanjar, kukri, misercorde, scramasax, sewar, pugio, parazonium, athame

main gauche - jitte, tjabang

rapier - baselard, bilbo, cglichemarde, epee, , foil, tuck, verdun, skewer

estoc

scimitar - chundrick, cutlass, khopesh, kora, saif, sapara, shamshir, shotel, talwar

short sword - braquemar, herebra, gladius, karabela, ken, kris, ninjato, wakizashi

broadsword - babanga, chereb, flyssa, kaskara, katana, katzbalger, machera, nagan, pata, sabre, schiavona, spatha, xiphos, yatagan, talon sword

handaxe - adze, bearded waraxe, biliong, bullova, dolabra, francisca, hatchet, kadjo, kharga, masakari, sickle, sparte, tabar, toporok, broad axe, crescent axe, Balta, sparte

falchion - craquemarte, dao, dacian falx, dha, pala, machete, badelaire, kilij, balestarius

morning star - ball and chain, binnol,

mace - bouzdykan, dhara, gargaz, lohangi, mazule, water sprinkler

cudgel - baculus, burrong, club, kujerong, maquahuilt, pahu, truncheon

whip - cat-o'-nine tails, chemeti, flagellum, kalus, kamcha

war hammer - bec-de-corbin, martel-de-fer

two-handed sword- claidhmore, dalwal, espadon, executioner sword, flamberge, no-dachi, ram dao, zweihander

battle axe - doloire, naga waraxe, adze, tabar

flail - maul, petjut

mattock - oncin, sabar, taavish, zaghnal

quarterstaff - bo, chacing staff, jo, naboot, yoribo

javelin - jaculum, jarid, pelta, pilum

spear - assegai, cateia, harpoon, kikuki, pill, sinan, yari, *falarica

halberd - bill, brandestoc, berdysh(bardiche), falx, fauchard, fuscina, glaive, guisarme, naginata, scythe, spetum, trident, voulge

lance - bhala, footman lance, sarissa, pike, taru, zagaye, sudis

BRAWLING WEAPONS: tiger-claw, jackblade, yierka-spur, cestus, knuckle-blade

OTHER

bastard sword - saren, sauschwerter(boar sword), tashi, espadon

awl pike - TBA *runka

military pick - TBA

Runka and falarica have been added...anyone who has additions, please post 'em so we can keep the list up to date!

[This message has been edited by Aerienne (edited 11-11-2001).] reg

http://www.art-with-attitude.com/village/weapons.html

Searching either http://www.dictionary.com or http://www.google.com is also useful. On the search field for Google, use the weapon name + weapon. ie. balta+weapon. reg

Simple no-frills website, bare-basic graphics so it doesn't take forever to load up, and it has links to some of the most obscure and interesting places on the web!

For medieval fantasy genre information, whether it's genuine clothing or Ren-Faire fairy crowns, Google is the place to look!

Roberta
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edge reg

also warball, but i just heard about those, never "seen" one.

'lood

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I like my craquemarte because its unique, but it took me awhile to get used to typing craq instead of crac crauq crouq, etc. etc.

'lood reg

Aerienne

Grimslade's Encyclopedia of Elanthian Weaponry
Handaxe
Damage: Slash/crush
Description: Axes are made of a large blade attached to a wooden handle. These weapons hit very hard against HEAVY armored enemies. These hit the best against full plate out of all the other edged weapons. Very popular weapon.
Other names: Cleaver, francisca, hatchet, waraxe, kaskara, taavish.

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Tiny's Stomping Grounds:
taavish: stone axe with the wooden handle carved at the end to represent a man's head; stone blade is fitted into the handle and represents the tongue reg

Any else?

And I've never even heard of a war ball....

::coughs::

Aerienne reg

The only skewer I have seen is a 1x/1x defender. And it was a rapier.

Also, some names have been used with different bases pretty often. There are khopesh with a falchion base, never seen one with scimitar base. But I am sure half the things in the lands have had a different base at one time or another. Not to mention when things get altered.

I also ran across a few new brawling weapons on the pawnshop floor yesterday. Heres the ones I picked up, although there were a few more I didnt get my hands on.

a jackblade
a yierka-spur
a cestus
a knuckle-blade reg

I'd like to pop those in the original post as well, but I'd like to make sure they go in the right spot. ::chuckles;:

Aerienne reg