Polearm Quiz

[Adapt]

Do you know your bill-hook from your fauchard-fork?

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx ... olearmquiz

After surprising myself by scoring a 15 on this quiz, I had to reflect for a moment and wonder: Why the HELL have I managed to retain this nearly useless information for so long when I can never remember where I left my keys?

[Blood axe]

I only got an 8. LOL.

[bighara]

Embarassingly, I got a 13

[bathwizard]

I got 18, and then I get accused of being a cheater
Although perhaps I should prefer to be accused of cheating than accused of being that much of a medieval geek....

[Blood axe]

I got 18, and then I get accused of being a cheater
Although perhaps I should prefer to be accused of cheating than accused of being that much of a medieval geek....

Wow...Im speechless....

[bathwizard]

Some of them were lucky guesses. My memory of what differentiates a voulge-guisarme from a glaive-guisarme is a little bit hazy. And the partisan and spetum look quite similar to me. Luck helps in multiple choice.

[Charlatan]

I got ten! But then I wasn't around for the original DnD, its just from wikipedia pages on medieval weaponry. XD

[connivingsumo]

I got a 15, but I guessed on some and got them right... and guessed on some and got them wrong. My recollection of Unearthed Arcana's page on Pole Arms is fuzzy; as a teenager, I would study that page for drawings and such. My favorites were the Bardiche for the damage (and I got that one wrong! ), and the Fauchard Fork (for the look).

I'm with bathwizard - I get a lot of those mixed up as I'm not even sure which distinguishes from which.

Oddly, I now have a desire to go research the differences of those that bathwizard mentioned, and some of the others!

[tumblingdice]

Half of them I didn't even venture a guess on, but I got an 8. Run me through with a ranseur.

[seneschal]

Er ...

"The pointy end goes in the other man."

Alejandro Murrieta, Mask of Zorro (1998)