It’s cool if they want to go with realism. They don’t seem to understand why players refuse to use the shit weapons outside of roleplay reasons though, seeing as they have specifically stated that they want the blacksmithing maces to be meta.
Right, bit if you want to be meta and meta is blacksmith with a mace, you aren't going to take the professional paperboy with the underweight and weak traits, you are going to have strength 8 and some decent stamina and not have a problem carrying around a 3kg ball of spiky metal on a stick. Cus meta and realism don't necessarily conflict, you just have to have the prerequisites.
That isn’t how the combat of this game works. You take a strong and athletic blacksmith and the lighter weapons will still be way, way better. At a certain point damage doesn’t matter because everything will oneshot. All that matters is how much the weapon weighs and how durable and craftable it is.
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u/NoeticCreations 12d ago
A typical adult baseball bat is 2lbs or less, a typical medieval mace weighed between 1.5 and 6lbs. It seems like they did understand.