You're welcome everybody. I found the no picture thing a bit frustrating too, so I thought I'd put up a preview. Dave, I just knew somebody was going to say that sooner or later. Heh heh. I'm not sure where that misnomer started but I think the D&D manuals have had a big hand in spreading it. A flail is a very different looking implement that started out as an agricultural tool. Here's the Cambridge International English Dictionary definition of a flail: "a tool consisting of a rod which swings from a long handle, used esp. in the past for threshing grain" For a morning star definition you have to turn to a more specialised work. I have a bunch of books on medieval arms and armour on my shelf here. Here's the definition from one of them: ...."Morning Star, a spike-studded ball hung by a chain from a short staff, XIV-XV cent." The book is "The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth Century", Charles Ffoulkes, 1912. And here's what the same book had to say about flails: "Flail, the military flail was like the agricultural implement, but as a weapon of war the thresher was of iron instead of wood".

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