General What does your Blade look like?

[bookwyrm]

I now feel compelled to include this.

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The Aura of the David Bowie Knife makes it cut, stab and slice better. Not only that, the Aura draws so much attention, that unless your opponent is highly trained, it's easier to make feints and defend against them or to take advantage of their 'distraction'.

 

[Diveguy]

Or you could go with the concept of "bigger than a K-bar, smaller than a sword" and perhaps caveat as "heavier blade, intended more as weapon than general tool".

Which then also opens up things like kukris... or parang... or any of a number of variations.

And yes, I know both the above were *originally* tools, I'm just going with a concept for the discussion.

 

[whulorigan]

I thought something closer to a Bowie Knife.

That was what I thought back in the day also until I finally realized that the Blade description was too long .

 

[willtron3030]

I now feel compelled to include this.

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So, what's your favorite Bowie "deep cut"?

 

[Badenov]

So, what's your favorite Bowie "deep cut"?

So I actually got to see him on the China Girl tour (I was a teenager then, so my parents wanted to go and a ticket was cheaper than a babysitter back then (and I was old enough to be well-behaved in public, so like 14)), though I have to say his Ziggy Stardust era is my preference. Young Americans and Heroes are pretty cool also, and his whole discography is pretty awesome, so it's hard to call just one a 'favorite'.

 

[Spinward Scout]

The Aura of the David Bowie Knife

Ground Control to Major Tom.
Your Knife is dropping like a Bomb...

 

[Rupert]

That feels right. like an undersized gladius or spatha, with better metallurgy. The blade was one of Dumarest's weapons of choice in the books, and the LBB depiction confused me a little. "A basket hilt? How could he carry that in his boot?"

Dumarest's standard weapon was a knife, and one with a blade a little shorter than the standard dueling weapon of the setting. So definitely not a 'blade', just a knife or dagger.

 

[willtron3030]

Dumarest's standard weapon was a knife, and one with a blade a little shorter than the standard dueling weapon of the setting. So definitely not a 'blade', just a knife or dagger.

Ôō

::does text search of all 33 Dumarest books::

• Lallia, Ch 1:
  "The hilt of a knife showed above the waistband of his pants, the nine-inch blade gleaming as he threw it beside the tunic on the bed."
• Lallia, Ch 4:
  "He had seen it a hundred times in the eyes of watchers clustered around a ring where men fought with ten-inch blades."

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Well... shirt. Everything I thought I knew was a lie.