Actually, while I’m talking about medieval combat pet peeves:
Shields aren’t just defensive, they are their own category of weapon. I’ve been using a shield for a couple of years now, and have even spent some time as a shield trainer, and I can tell you with full confidence that using a weapon and shield is equivalent to two-weapon fighting.
You can slap, punch, and just fuckin’ charge-and-slam. Shields can deal devastating damage, and every single fight I choreograph with my shield, I explicitly work in moves where I use my shield to attack.
I’ve actually done multiple fights where I get disarmed partway through, and go on to finish (and win) with just my shield. And yeah, stage combat has a certain amount of dramatic flair that you wouldn’t have in a real fight, but I’ve also used shields in SCA heavy combat, and the philosophy is the same. That shit’s a second weapon.
also you can just beat the shit out of someone with them in a pinch
[ID: Two stage combat fighters on the living chessboard at a renaissance faire. One of them is on the ground, and one of them (me!) has a viking-style round shield raised in both hands, preparing to hit their opponent with it.]
I’m a 120lb weed and I can throw an effective shield bash. You just have to throw acceleration behind it. And it is fun. Not so fun being hit by one mind you….
WAIT
YOU’RE SAYING I COULD BENCH PRESS YOU???
Oh probably. My fighting style is based off speed and savagery and only works cause no one expects a 5'7" twig to come at them like a pissed-off wolverine.
Very fair. I approve.
I’m more a dex-based fighter myself, but I make a habit of lifting large heavy things enough to make sure that I’m no slouch in strength based checks either.
im so mad bc “atlas shrugged” is such a raw fucking title. thats an EXCELLENT name for a book. a man holding the weight of the entire world on his shoulders is so moved by his disdain for the current state of things that he exerts the force to shrug. indifference to the nth degree. that’s fucking metal. then you read it and it’s just about hating poor people.
Tiktok is making a whole bunch of claims that you shouldn’t curse the government because they have ‘ancient dark magicks that is so much more powerful then us and did we mention Ancient and Dark and every person talking about this spells it magick’ and something about the cia doing astral projection? and I feel like you’d find this funny caretaker
IM NOT EVEN JOKING THE CIA TRIED TO TRAIN PEOPLE TO SCRY BACK IN THE 50s BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THE RUSSIANS WERE DOING IT IT TIES INTO THE MKULTRA STUFF
THEY DONT HAVE SORCERERS ANYMORE SO YOU CAN CURSE THEM
Tonight’s live stream ended early because the pharmacy can’t get their shit together and I have to go spend the next 3 hours on a delivery that could have been done much earlier in the day
