Posted by Aradan on May 12, 2000 at 13:26:06:
In Reply to: something to consider posted by Takashimi on May 12, 2000 at 13:14:46:
> I was reading an article on Gladiator and the Gladius swords they were using weighed 8lbs or so. The actors (Even big Sven Ole Thorsen) found them to be hard to control and for actual contact they had to use fake ones otherwise they would break bones.
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> Now, that being said: with the exception of a few such as Sven and Ralf Moeller, the gladiators in that movie were normal sized people. Russell Crowe lost nearly 60 lbs to play that role. Now, consider the people of Thera. Ratings of strength of Titanic, Herculean, etc are as common as anything. So the weight of the weapons is relative.
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> Most knives weigh well under a pound in RL...can you imagine one that weighs 5lbs?
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> > Why are most of the weapons so heavy? I can't imagine swinging
> > a 15-25 lb sword or any weapon for that matter. I could see giants
> > being able to, but the other races I would imagine would struggle
> > quite a bit with a 20+ lb weapon. I know it's just a game, but it
> > just seems rather strange that even when the items were first created
> > they were given such heavy weights.
Actually, in a spate of boredom, I was just thinking about this yesterday. A dagger that weighs 3 pounds would be unbelievably unwieldy. Can you imagine a dagger that weighs 20 pounds (abjatha) and isn't a spear? Damned tough to imagine. The average weight seems to be about 5, which is really heavy for a dagger, and is probably more based in game mechanics than reality, I suppose.