(04-21-2015, 03:06 PM)Verad Wrote: How about we discard the business of historicity entirely and look at this from another angle than one that has been and will be looked at by embittered roleplay autodidacts throughout RP history: thematically, rather than historically, why the greatsword?Â
Presuming people do know the history of the greatsword and that it was a specific weapon for a specific role, and then they choose to have their character wield it in complete defiance of that knowledge, why would they do that? Is it possible that the greatsword has acquired a a kind of thematic and symbolic weight that has nothing at all to do with its historical use? Why is that thematic weight insignificant compared to historically accurate portrayals of its use, or why should it be that?
Well they are bigger and cooler!
I get what you are saying Verad, but things like these are just fun to talk about.