[Runequest] Advice Sought re Damage & H

[Paul Cardwell]

--- Bjorn Stolen <stolenbjorn at hotmail.com> wrote:
[snips fore and aft]
> -I agree fully to this. Mail changes everything when
> it comes to blades. That is why the warhammer/iron
> mace is much more common in the later medieval
> times, when mail and plate became more common. In my
> houserules, I divide between bashing, cutting and
> piercing-damage, and armor protects differently
> against different weapons. So if someone with a
> sword cuts at someone with a chainmail, the damage
> is halved and applied against the chainmails
> bashing-protection (which isn't very good, as there
> have been found bones with imprints of mail on them,
> somthing that would indicate that beeing hit with
> just a chainmail as protection, you'd probably
> break/smash whatever is beneath) 

It also helps to have both weapon damage and armor
absorption separate for impale, slash, and crush. 
Chainmail is great against slash, not as good against
impale, and transmits most of crush right through
(which is why there was generally quilt padding under
the mail).  Yes, Mythworld has this distinction and it
works quite well.

Paul Cardwell