Acuqisitions Incorporated!

By BruceLGL, in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG

I don't recommend you watch their D&D stuff then it might upset you. Interestingly I find your example a great illustration of why sticking to the rules limits play. If course a glaive and halberd are different, and the fighter could use the axe head to fell a tree (though they probably wouldn't want to) or get the head stuck in a fallen enemy.

Character sheets being available would just make it more obvious where they are making things up.

28 minutes ago, BruceLGL said:

I don't recommend you watch their D&D stuff then it might upset you. Interestingly I find your example a great illustration of why sticking to the rules limits play. If course a glaive and halberd are different, and the fighter could use the axe head to fell a tree (though they probably wouldn't want to) or get the head stuck in a fallen enemy.

Character sheets being available would just make it more obvious where they are making things up.

*The following is an example of the aforementioned character's logic, mannerisms, and thoughts of what makes a halberd a halberd. It is not intended to be insulting to the quoted forum member, but to exhibit why Hrolf Halberd-Bearer was fun for me to play. Trigger warning: agitating alliteration.

"Alright you impotent little imbecile, let me tell you right now why you don't know CRAP about the utter marvel of modern metallurgy that is the halberd! You think this is just a big woodsman's axe? You couldn't be more wrong, moron! This here halberd the pinnacle of precision, a polearm with the cleaving power of a dane axe, combined with the simple elegance of a longspear. A properly-proportioned halberd hits with enough heft to behead a horse with one swing, and you want to plough it into a solid tree trunk? That's a surefire method to shatter your shaft, or to embed your head into a hunk of hardwood! You'll bury this blade so far in a bough, it won't come out!

This is the kind of lazy, incomplete logic that led to glaives, the ultimate waste of potential. Sure, you've got reach with a sharp, stocky sword, but it's an complete cornucopia of wasted potential! Because some fancy fop of a forgemaster thought it would look pretty if he put a short sword on a stave, we ended up with the hunk of junk called a glaive - a halberd that's worse at cleaving through armor, stopping a cavalry charge, unseating a rider, and keeping bladesman at bay. It is objectively unfit for use, compared to a properly honed halberd in the hands of a hearty huscarl. Absolutely disgusting!"

Edited by Degenerate Mind
Changed "proper" to "hearty."

Going by the image at the start the Mynock looks like the Houndtooth x-wing miniature?

Omin is using the Smuggler/Charmer talent tree from the Smuggler book not sure about the rest!

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