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Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:50 pm Polearm quiz

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd%2F4dnd%2Fpolearmquiz

Extremely hard but fun.

I got 6/22 rolleyes

Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:00 pm

12 out of 22... not great, but decent...

Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:12 pm

I got 10 out of 22.

Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:34 am

19 of 22. Not bad for not having looked at that stuff in 8 years or so. Shocked

Mort should be run out of town on a fauchard-fork for not having done better. Laughing

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Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:54 am

13 out of 22 for me. Cool

I sold my copy of Unearthed Arcana years ago on ebay, but loved studying those pages of weapons in my youth. Smile

SirXaris

Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:01 am

20 out of 22

Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:52 am

13 out of 22 Happy

. I dont think i have ever played a character that used a pole arm.

Fri Apr 08, 2011 2:30 pm

11 out of 22. Pretty cool flashback.

Fri Apr 08, 2011 2:49 pm

14 out of 22....I think the only characters I ever had that had polearms were way back when I was 10 and playing the Mentzer Red-box Basic D&D and I chose the "Polearm" (only 1 choice in that book!) 'cause it did 1d10 points of damage and I think it was cheaper than the Two-handed Sword! :)

Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:05 pm

I got 12 of 22 using "A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armour". Its seriously flawed! Shocked

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Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:31 pm

11 of 22... and seriously, how can you tell the difference between a pike and a spear without some reference to scale?

Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:49 pm

14 out of 22.....geez it's been at least 10 years since I've considered any of that stuff....still not quite sure why there had to be dozens of long pole weapons in the Middle Ages. Then again, why do we have enough nukes to clear the Earth over 80 times?
Maybe there's a medieval industrial-military complex that never made it into the history books.... Happy

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Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:57 pm

11 of 22, Fun but wow...LONG time since I thought about any of that stuff.

Fri Apr 08, 2011 10:27 pm Polearm Quiz results

14 out of 22 ... not to shabby. I thought about bringing out my 1st ed stuff and reminiscing while looking for the illustrations for the answers, but I figured it would be more fun if I didn't! I was right! What a hoot! Trying to remember if the bec-de-corbin has the long spike or the Lucerne hammer ... if the little stiletto point makes it a "fork" on any other weapon ... great fun!

But then ... i'm a g33k. rolleyes

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Sat Apr 09, 2011 9:08 am

7/22

BUT.

Who cares, I'm a Halfling. A fire poker is a polearm for me.

Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:28 am

16 out of 22.

I mixed up volge-guisarme & glaive-guisarme, confused lochaber axe & pole axe, & missed voulge & awl-pike.

Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:44 pm

Yes it was difficult but I'm 22 of 22 almost messed up the bec de corbin with lucern hammer.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd%2F4dnd%2Fpolearmquiz

Then I remembered the bec de corbin head was similar to a spear head or awl pike and the lucern hammer has a ranseur like head.

Imagine if I actually used those weapons before. Evil Grin

Sat Apr 09, 2011 3:42 pm

8 of 22... and I once had a character specialized in the Bardiche!

Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:07 pm

21 of 22, but then again, I'm into weapons.

Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:10 pm

I just retook it using The Complete Encyclopedia Of Arms & Weapons (a 544-page bada$$ of a book) and managed to get 12 of 22 correct.

Once again I champion the fact that 3.5 logic and real logic do not belong together, even slightly.

Sat Apr 09, 2011 8:46 pm

In my own defense, I took that quiz in like under 5 minutes while chatting in Greychat at the same time.

Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:56 pm

Mort,
Don't let Cebrion get to you. Your the Ull specialist all they know is dagger on a stick. Although I can see Bardiche's being popular amongst the half-breeds.

Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:18 am

Bugger I thought I knew my stuffs 12/22 Obviously I didn't know as much as I thought.

Then again I have never had any character who ised one of these weapon (DM used speed rules) and found them far too slow to use and also not suitable for dungeon crawling.

A goos blast from the past never the less. Thanks

Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:24 am

Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:25 pm

16/22 in under 3 minutes, and proud of myself.

P.S. D20 Conan helped me recognize a bardiche instantly

Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:03 am

18/22, and solely because I spent a great deal of my youth looking at those very illustrations from 1st ed. Unearthed Arcana.

Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:02 pm

8 out of 22