Bannor Bloodfist wrote...
As always, you never cease to amaze me with your skills Este.
To be fair, Bannor, I owe pretty much all of them to you. *giant hugs*
Bannor Bloodfist wrote...
I would recommend watching some old western movies, anything with a bar brawle (sp?). Most times, a bottle does more bluddeoning damange than anything else. After first impact, it could be considered a rather bad knife edge, depending on the luck of the person holding it on whether or not it completely shattered or left them with something to hold onto.
In the movies, the bottles always leave the neck with a jagged edge that the person holding it, can use to threaten the other party involved in the fight. Anyway, bottles are typically used to knock someone out, not cut them up. Bust the bottle over the head of the person being attacked, OR break the bottle against a table and use the remaining bits as a rough knife.
Well, having actually had a glass broken over my head once in a barfight, I don't need to go to the movies! It was certainly bludgeoning damage, though it seems my skull was thick enough not to be particularly hurt. ;-D The whole, unbroken bottle-clubs represent the bludgeoning damage end of things. However, my understanding is that sometimes a thug will break the end of a bottle and use the resultant jaggedy ends as a piercing/slashing weapon. I do know, however (from friends' personal experience rather than my own fights), that this often works better on the screen than in real life. A friend's would-be opponent once injured no one but himself when he went to break the end off a bottle, as the whole thing shattered and cut his hand.
Anyway, from a custom content point of view, it would probably be handier to just make more clubs. But realism seems to demand cutting damage from a cutting edge. I shall have a think about it!
