raniE
Big Bearded Guy
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Again though, humans became masters of the world and top of the food chain during the stone age. We didn't need fancier technology than fire and flint knapping to become the terrors of the world. You got a link to how people use spears to kill hippos from AsenRG , and a long sword is essentially a fully metal spear, with sharp edges as well as a sharp point. Now, this is dangerous, but it doesn't mean it can't be done and the odds are on the side of the human. But the odds are on your side in a game of Russian roulette as well. You have an 83.33% chance of coming out alive of that one after all.I'm pretty sure you'd get crushed like a bug. I just don't see a longsword doing enough damage in the, likely, one shot you'd get to make any kind of difference. Blah blah, anyway, I'm really not arguing about fantasy longswords or hippos, just the issues that crop up when we try to apply RPG stats to real life and vice versa. It gets sticky.