Bash & Crush vs. Cut & Slash

[MaxWilson]

Well, the damage on small weapons is too high generally. A normal str 10 person hitting a person with 10 hp with his fist, or a small knife, does not have a good chance of killing the other person in real life. However, I think Dominions makes a good tradeoff here between versimilitude and playability; you could plausibly reduce the damage of a fist to -5 or -7 (probably won't kill anyone with one blow unless it's a giant doing the punching) but I don't mind the way it is currently.

Edit: I also think that aiming for parity w/ Prot 12 is setting the bar a little too high, since that's the "well-protected" range that a mace is designed to get through. Maybe Prot 6 or 8, which would put the mace at dmg 1 or dmg 0 respectively. If that seems unbalancing it turn out that maces also affect your attack and defense values more than was previously thought.

On the other hand, it might also be that maces are no more effective than swords at *penetrating* heavy armor, but the extra moment of inertia helps deal a little bit of damage against moderate amounts of armor. The current system models this quite well, because hammers etc. have a high damage (7). Really heavy armors are not affected, of course, except that there is a marginally higher chance of rolling high enough to do some damage. On consideration, I like the fact that blunt weapons are not AP.

-Max