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    What is this on her left arm? And the leg/boot blades too?

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    Default Re: What would you call this arm-weapon thing?

    Bladed Tonfa.
    Bladed boots.

    I don't think those particular weapons are inherently designed with some real life weapon in mind.

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    Skarn spines.

    And on that note, wth?

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    Hope she doesn't have to pick her nose

    I'd call it a refluffed spiked gauntlet.
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    Doesn't really cover her hand. Would it qualify as spiked armor at all?
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    Klingon batleth.

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    I would say this is not that good for fighting, sundering could be dangerous for her arm.
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    A bashblade and kick-blades?

    To pile on the "OMG that looks impracticaally dangerous"-crowd:
    They look tremendously dangerous to not just the opponent but also the wearer. They also do look cool.

    And also, is she wearing high heels?

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    The legs are called 'Are you nuts?' and yes, she's wearing heels.
    Arm is called 'Over large and impractical'.
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    It's not impractical. It's EXTREMELY impractical. Closest I'd say is it's an oversized bladed tonfa with short swords on the boots, but [REDACTED] if it isn't a bit silly.
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    Well, this certainly looks like someone who would fight using a lot of spinning kicks. Considering that the best way in martial arts to block a low kick is to intercept it with a kick of your own...

    Yeah, no. I wouldn't want to fight her at ALL. This looks like someone who geared up to fight specifically against monks of one sort or another.

    Also, I guess you'd call that blade on her arm an axe of sorts? Like a dwarven buckler axe, but without the buckler bit.

    I suppose for the leg blades, look into the hidden blade section of Complete Scoundrel, and scale up the damage, but remove the concealment, that's the best I can do.

    ...C'mon guys, seriously. We have Glory-whatever armor, that makes Conan the chippendale look over-dressed. We've seen way worse than this before.

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    And also, is she wearing high heels?
    You mean you don't do ninja style martial arts and acrobatics in heels?

    Next you'll tell me that armors with boob-shaped plate isn't your protection of choice

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    Looks like the sort of weapons I'd expect to see on, like, a construct--something that isn't worried about hurting itself. That or a Hork-Bajir.

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    Looks like the sort of weapons I'd expect to see on, like, a construct--something that isn't worried about hurting itself. That or a Hork-Bajir.
    I'm not entirely sure Hork-Bajir need weapons..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Troacctid View Post
    Looks like the sort of weapons I'd expect to see on, like, a construct--something that isn't worried about hurting itself. That or a Hork-Bajir.
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    I'm not entirely sure Hork-Bajir need weapons..
    i never expected to see a reference to hork-bajir on these forums
    then again, i never expected to see a reference to hork-bajir anywhere.


    and i'll echo the people saying it looks like a really weird bladed tonfa
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    It -looks- like highly stylized shadowblade. The connection at the forearm is a little close to the elbow and -way- too snug. The apparent center of balance is also way too far forward.

    I wouldn't use that one in particular but the weapon it's based on can be useable in skilled hands.

    The boot blades are just weird and probably a bad idea.
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    And also, is she wearing high heels?
    They're to help her feet stay in her stirrups, obviously.

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    i never expected to see a reference to hork-bajir on these forums
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    actually, if she had a second bladed tonfa, some more spikes on her armour, and a horned helmet, she could almost pass off as a hork-bajir
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    Looks a bit like the Fin Razors and Tail Blades from Cerulean Seas. In that setting they are used by intelligent fish such as sharks, but this could be a human variant.

    I'd stat them up as 1d6 19-20 x2 (P, S), cannot be disarmed, full round action to equip.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PraxisVetli View Post
    I'm not entirely sure Hork-Bajir need weapons..
    They don't, but that's what it reminds me of.

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    Useless.

    It looks cool, but that's it. Although they made a set of the leg ones for soul calibur three and gave the fighter a very sweeping kick intensive style of combat. It was called the Grieve Edge.


    Absotively posolutely no good pictures available of the weapons themselves though, which is unfortunate. The individual choices include; shoes with a huge fan on top of the foot, up to gorgeous full leg plating with crystaline spines.
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    They might be totally useless in the real world, but then so are dire flails, double bladed swords, orc double axes and tons of other weapons in D&D.
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    highly stylized shadowblade.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kelb_Panthera View Post
    It -looks- like highly stylized shadowblade. The connection at the forearm is a little close to the elbow and -way- too snug. The apparent center of balance is also way too far forward.

    I wouldn't use that one in particular but the weapon it's based on can be useable in skilled hands.

    The boot blades are just weird and probably a bad idea.
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    It's an english translation of the proper name which is (I think) german. It's been a good while though.

    Rayne from bloodrayne uses a pair of them that are only a bit stylized as opposed to that monstrosity. Her techniques are completely ridiculous, of course.

    The idea is a blade that is extremely difficult to disarm and that follows the line of the forearm. The point of attachment is supposed to be a fairly padded cuff just below the bicep that's just loose enough to rotate around the forearm without being so loose as to drive into the forearm enough to cause damage on a parry. Naturally, you'd want to avoid a hard block as much as possible.
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    That picture is definitely Escher Girls worthy. I canh't quite work out what's going on with her torso, but it certainly bears little resemblance to normal humanoid anatomy.

    EDIT: Got it. Her torso has been surgically amputated at the waist, then grafted back on at a 90 degree angle. I blame a wizard.
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    The thing on her arm would be somewhat useful device for disarm or sunder type attacks. The sawtooth cutouts for catching a blade sliding along the edge of the blade that can then use to significantly firmer attachment of the device to wrench her(?) opponent's blade out of their hands. . . So basically it would be most useful in defense. It would only really be effective if the elbow can actually bend and I'm not sure about that in this pic. . . and may function as a punch dagger on top of that.

    also twelve year old Chinese contortionists in Cirque de Sol could get pointers from this lady.
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    i never expected to see a reference to hork-bajir on these forums
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