• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    9 months ago

    People underestimate the deadliness of the simple staff. It’s a solid hunk of hardwood. In a medieval reenactment group my friend was a part of, some people said the staves should require two hits to take out an opponent because they’re so weak. So they set up a steel helmet as a test, hit it once and caved it in completely. That put a stop to all that talk.

    But yes a skilled quarterstaff practitioner should absolutely place their hands much farther apart.

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      9 months ago

      Well, as Archimedes already said:

      Give me a lever long enough and a fixed point on which to place it, and I shall cave your head in.

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      9 months ago

      People underestimate the deadliness of absolutely everything, except for the things where we grossly overestimate it.