Weapons and armour by culture
by Julian SegalI am in the process of converting from OD&D to AD&D but I intend to keep to the Mystaran campaign setting. In reading the Player Option rules I noticed a number of tables in Skills & Powers listing the weapons and armour available in different cultures and decided to relate these to the various nations of Mystara. Now, despite having been playing a Mystaran campaign since before it was called Mystara (about 17 years) I have to admit that I have not read every Gazetteer from cover to cover, nor am I, by any means, an historian, so I may have got these wrong. For this reason I am humbly submitting my ideas here for your comments:
Alfheim - Table 59 Dark Ages but not
crossbow, lance or horseman's mace:
Battle Axe, Bow (long, short, composite short), Arrow (flight,
sheaf), Caltrop, Dagger, Dart, Hand/Throwing Axe, Javelin,
Footman's mace, Quarterstaff, Spear, Long Spear, Staff Sling
(stinkpot, stone), Broad Sword, Long Sword, Sabre, Short Sword, Two
Handed Axe, War hammer
Bronze plate, chainmail, leather, light scale, metal lamellar,
padded, ring mail, scale, studded leather
Alphatia, Darokin, Glantri,
Minrothad - Table 61 Late Middle Ages/Renaissance (without the
firearms):
Battle Axe, Bow (long, short, composite long, composite short),
Arrow (flight, sheaf, pile), Crossbow (Light, Heavy, Pellet),
Dagger, Main Gauche, Parrying Dagger, Stiletto, Flail (foot and
horse), hand/throwing axe, lance (light, medium, heavy, jousting),
mace (foot and horse), mancatcher, maul, morningstar, pick (foot
and horse), polearm (awl pike, bill, bill-guisarme,
glaive-guisarme, halberd, military fork, partisan, ranseur, spetum,
voulge), quarterstaff, Spear, staff sling (stinkpot, stone), Bastard
Sword, Broad Sword, Claymore, Cutlass, Falchion, Long Sword,
Rapier, Sabre, Short Sword, Two-handed sword, War hammer
Brigandine, Chainmail, Field Plate, Full Plate, Leather, Metal
Lamellar, Padded, Plate Mail, Splint Mail, Studded
Leather
Atruaghin Clans, Broken Lands -
Table 56 Stone Age/Savage Settings
Adze, Stone Axe, Battle Axe, Blowgun (barbed dart, needle), Bola,
Boomerang, Short Bow, Arrow (stone, flight), Club, Dagger, Bone
dagger, Stone dagger, Dart, Hand Axe, Harpoon, Bone harpoon,
Javelin, Stone javelin, Knife, Bone knife, Stone knife, Lasso,
Machete, Quarterstaff, Rock, Sling (stone), Spear, Throwing Knife,
War Club
Cord Armour, Hide Armour, Leather, Padded, Studded Leather,
Wood/Bone
Denagoth - Table 59 Dark Ages
Same as Alfheim plus: Crossbow (light, pellet), Lance (light,
medium) and Footman's mace
Ethengar Khanates - Table 62 Middle
Eastern Cultures (but no Ankus)
Bagh Nakh, Battle Axe, Blowgun, Bow (composite long, composite
short), Arrow (flight), Chain, Chakram, Crossbow (hand, light,
pellet), Dagger, Jambiya, Katar, Dart, Flail (foot and horse),
Hand/Throwing axe, Javelin, Lance (light, medium), Mace (foot and
horse), Mancatcher, Polearm (Awl pike, Glaive, Halberd, Military
Fork), Quarterstaff, Spear, Long spear, Cutlass, Great Scimitar,
Long Sword, Sabre, Scimitar, Short Sword, Tulwar, Trident
Brigandine, Chainmail, Cord, Hide, Improved Mail, Leather, Light
Scale, Metal Lamellar, Padded, Scale, Studded Leather
Five shires - Table 61 Late Middle
Ages/Renaissance (plus blowgun minus size L weapons)
See Alphatia but with above modifications
Heldannic Territories - Tables 57
and 60 Bronze Age/Ancient Settings and The Crusades
See Northern Reaches for 57 and Ierendi for 60
Ierendi, Norwold, Wendar - Table 60
The Crusades
Battle Axe, Bow (long, short, composite long, composite short),
Arrow (flight, sheaf, pile), Caltrop, Crossbow (light, heavy,
pellet), Dagger, Stiletto, Flail (foot and horse), Hand/Throwing
axe, Javelin, Lance (light, medium, heavy, jousting), mace (foot
and horse), Morningstar, Pick (foot and horse), Polearm (Awl pike,
Bardiche, Bec de Corbin, Bill, Bill Guisarme, Fachaurd, Glaive,
Glaive-guisarme, Guisarme, Halberd, Lucern hammer, Military Fork),
Quarterstaff, Spear, Staff Sling (stinkpot, stone), Bastard Sword,
Broad Sword, Falchion, Long Sword, Sabre, Short Sword, Two-handed
Sword, War hammer
Chainmail, Improved Mail, Leather, Metal Lamellar, Padded, Plate
Mail, Scale, Studded Leather
Karameikos, Thyatis - Tables 58 and
60 Cultures of the Roman Age and The Crusades
See above for Table 60. Plus: Cestus, Dart, Net, Pilum, Long
Spear, Drusus, Gladius, Spatha and Trident
Plus Banded Mail, Bronze Plate, Light Scale, Ring mail
Northern Reaches - Table 57 - Bronze
Age/Ancient Settings (plus Claymore)
Adze, Battle Axe, Bow (long, short, composite short), Arrow
(flight), Cestus, Dagger, Dart, Hand/Throwing Axe, Javelin, Lance
(light), Mace (foot and horse), Mace-Axe, Pike, Quarterstaff,
Spear, Long Spear, Staff Sling (stinkpot, stone), Broad Sword,
Khopesh, Sapara, Short Sword, Claymore, Sword-Axe, Trident,
Two-handed Axe, War hammer, War club
Bronze plate, cord, hide, leather, light scale, padded, ring mail,
scale, studded leather, wood/bone
Rockhome - Table 61 Late Middle
Ages/Renaissance (but no bow, polearms or horseman's flail)
See Alphatia
Sind, Ylaruam - Table 62 Middle
Eastern Cultures (plus Khopesh, minus Ankus and Bagh Nakh)
See Ethengar