From: Lahtinen Antti Jussi (al76188@cs.tut.fi)
Date: Tue 05 Apr 1994 - 19:22:39 EEST
Dragonewt Weapons, Samarin and Chokin
Does anyone have any information about Samarin and Chokin?
The only data I could found was in RQ Monsters, and I do not even know how these weapons look like. According to RQ Monsters... Name Rate Damage Type AP Samarin 1/MR 1d4+1 Impale 2 Chokin 1/MR 1d6 Impale 2 What I am missing is the rest of the weapon data (STR/DEX, Base %, ENC, Range, Price).
(from my private musings...)
According to their damage values, Samarin could be a large Shaken, or possibly an Injiuchi Tsubute, and Chokin could be a Mongwanga. However, a mongwanga would have 6-8 AP. Shaken: a star-shaped throwing weapon, with 3-8 points. Both shuriken (needle-knife) and shaken (vehicle-knife) are used in Japanese shuriken-jutsu. Many films and books have made shaken quite famous, but the same books often call a 'shaken' as 'shuriken'. In RQ3, throwing star is called 'shuriken'. Sigh... Injiuchi Tsubute: a palm-sized hexagonal throwing disk, with each side sharpened into a blade. Sometimes called as 'metal throwing stone', it is thicker and heavier than shaken. Mongwanga: a swastika-shaped multi-blade throwing weapon, which has a short handle and 3 front-swept (kukri-like) blades. A mongwanga is little heavier and larger than a throwing axe, but is less affected by range because it does not matter which side of mongwanga hits the target. In the cover of Genertela box, the broo (Ralzakark ?) is wielding a mongwanga in his left hand...
(just thinking...)
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