24 September 2018

Polearm Emporium

There is a small shop in Caipi-Taal, in a backalley where the Black Street (known for its blacksmith workshops) meets the Moonward Street (which runs from the northern gate to the Cathedral of Authority). It is known as the Polearm Emporium and carries the widest selection of a certain type of weapons. Can you guess what type of weapons this shop offers?


d100 Polearms
  1. aklys
  2. angon
  3. arbir
  4. assegai
  5. awl-pike (aka ahlspeiss)
  6. bambu runcing
  7. bardiche
  8. barcha
  9. baston
  10. bec-de-corbin
  11. bident
  12. bill hook
  13. bisento
  14. bohemian ear-spoon (aka sudlice)
  15. brandistock
  16. broad spear (aka bear spear or boar spear)
  17. carseque
  18. dangpa
  19. djerid
  20. doloire
  21. falx
  22. fangtian ji
  23. fauchard
  24. ge (aka dagger-axe)
  25. gichang
  26. glaive
  27. goedendag
  28. great lance
  29. great pike
  30. great scythe
  31. guandao
  32. (bill-)guisarme
  33. halberd
  34. half-pike
  35. hanbo
  36. harpoon
  37. hasta
  38. hoeroa
  39. hoko yari
  40. hooked spear
  41. horseman's pick
  42. hu cha
  43. hyeopdo
  44. jangchang
  45. javelin
  46. kama yari
  47. khakkhara
  48. kontos
  49. langxian
  50. leister
  51. light lance
  52. lochaber axe
  53. long spear
  54. lucern hammer
  55. man-catcher
  56. menaulion
  57. military fork
  58. monk's spade
  59. naginata
  60. ox-tongue spear
  61. partisan
  62. phalarica
  63. pilum
  64. pitchfork
  65. plommée
  66. podao
  67. pole cleaver
  68. pole hammer
  69. pole mace
  70. pollax
  71. qiang
  72. qinglong ji
  73. quarterstaff
  74. ranseur
  75. rhomphaia
  76. saintie
  77. sarissa
  78. sasumata
  79. shepherd's axe
  80. short spear
  81. sibat
  82. siege hook
  83. sodegarami
  84. sovnya
  85. spetum
  86. spontoon
  87. sword-staff
  88. taiaha
  89. tao
  90. tepoztopilli
  91. tewhatewha
  92. trident
  93. trishula
  94. tsukubo
  95. two-section staff
  96. voulge
  97. war scythe
  98. welsh hook
  99. winged spear
  100. woldo

Long spear,
short spear
and javelins.

Pole mace is basically a morningstar on a very long pole.
Similarly, pole hammer is a long war hammer used against
riders, and looks a bit like lucern hammer.
 
Only pay attention to the right half of the picture.

Fangtian ji, also known as a half moon spear.

This is a war scythe...


...and this is a great scythe.

From the top: three taiahas, hoeroa, tewhatewha and a club.

Naginata, yari and arbir.

Bohemian ear-spoon.

Siege hook.

Bambu runcing is a simple hunting spear made of bamboo.

A selection of European polearms.

Quite obviously inspired by this Order of the Stick strip. But this emporium actually has weapons to sell. And while all the weapons will probably have pretty much the same stats, the players can buy a polearm with a cool sounding name here.

2 comments:

  1. Consider a system where you play as a random peasant with an ultra-custom polearm, where each knobbly bit has some kind of, like, special effect? Idk how it would work but you'd get these baroque nightmares made of flails and spears and spikes and axes on the ends of poles and it would be *FUN*

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