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sirjared
So why is it that priests and healers in RPGs only carry blunt weapons?

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>> Anonymous
Healers especially. Try and perform a precision operation with a mace. Just fucking try it.
>> Anonymous
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Because of this.

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>> Somewhat !rK4K86e49M
holy shit, there are sharp pieces of bone in her mammaries
>> Anonymous
Many RPG classes are rooted in traditions set by the old Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. In D&D, it mentioned that cutting implements were forbidden to be used by priests outside of, say, a ritual, and so were restricted to blunt implements.

I also recall it having something to do with priests not being able to spill blood, but since a smash in the face with a hammer will just as likely draw some blood as bruise . . . yeah. But there you go.

Also why the heck are you asking this here? This is /i/, ask in whichever channel is traditional gaming.
>> -(:)
why not ask? :I
blunts kinda look like wands/staffs. :3
>> sirjared
I ask only because I wanted to draw Rakka as a healer.
>> Anonymous
Swords and axes and other blades are the weapons of heathens, who have strayed from God.
>> Rickz0r !AvrvnsSyog
Because caster classes, healer or offense, tend to melt faces off already. The last thing we need is a healer class that can rip and tear.

Also being weak as fuck with melee they need the bluntness to probably put more force into their swings just in case something gets all up in thar grillz.
>> Anonymous
>>79951
I didn't even notice that was supposed to be Rakka.
>> Anonymous
Also, priests are traditionally matched against the undead. Swords aren't as effective against skeletons and zombies as a mace or club.
>> Anonymous
that, and priests and healers aren't supposed to fight and be skilled in weilding swords.
Or else, it would be a Paladin-crusader god-berseker crazy-fanatic demons-banner don't know where I'm going in this sentence.
>> Anonymous
Because priests/clerics are not supposed to spill blood, some sort of religious thing handed down from D&D to other rpgs
>> Anonymous
>>79962

Fails, has obviously never seen a battle priest in RO or a white mage use hexastrike in ffxi.

>>79969
>>79976
>>79981

true fax
>> Rickz0r !AvrvnsSyog
>>80034
Both games are made of faggotry and fail.
>> Anonymous
>>80036

And so are you <3
>> Rickz0r !AvrvnsSyog
>>80037
Yeah, I played both of them AND World of Warcraft for about a year or two. It's on my resume of being a failure.
>> sirjared
>>80040

Indeed...RO has some decent character design, but that's about it. Only MMORPG worth playing is UO on free servers that haven't jumped the shark the twenty billion times along with the ISO servers.
>> V Man !Dg9rrR7ibM
Maces are better for crushing undead, who tend not to succumb as easily to slashing and piercing, as they feel no pain and this generally does little to actually destroy their muscle fibers.
>> Anonymous
I always assumed it was because blunt was less likely to cause permanent harm to the smashee. Being healers and all.
>> sirjared
So hidden trauma is somehow more holy?

>>80168
That might have been the consensus in the dark ages, but internal bleeding and bone fractures tend to be more harmful, and permanently crippling than pierced/slashed flesh.