fiontar opened this issue on Mar 06, 2000 ยท 18 posts
CharlieBrown posted Tue, 07 March 2000 at 10:02 AM
People are pointing out the lack of hand protection on this character. The "problem" with this is that she's a mix of styles. She has a weapon that looks like a Japanese katana or maybe a wakizashi; these have notoriously tiny hand guards for two reasons - 1) the fighting style empasizes body strikes, elegant leaps and twists, and broad sweeps, not the jab/thrust/parry of European fencing, and 3) Japanese armor tended to have more in the way of hand protection than its western counterparts. Of course, most people know theatrical fencing, which is a hybrid of both styles, mostly based on the European, intended to be more "showy" and less "functional"... I would recommend that the handguard on her sword be enlarged a bit; leaving the fingers as free as possible is paramount for a spellcaster!