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Weapons List
Obviously weapon choice has to be tailored to a specific setting to be truly
useful (i.e. it makes no sense for a Bronze Age Celt to be swinging an Iron Age
sword). But because the nature of The Stair is somewhat abstract in determining
damage there isn't a crucial need to have individual damage listed for each
weapon. Instead (and I make no excuse to the contrary), weapons are classified
by my own impression of their capacity to cause serious injury and tissue trauma.
If you have a different idea of how much damage a weapon should do or you think
that additional weapon types are needed, the GM can arbitrate that decision and
determine the actual Damage Step. Note that the table provided below is simple
for the purposes of example and should be used to guide your decisions, not limit
your options.
| Weapon Type | Damage Step | Examples | Notes |
| Small Melee | 1 | Dagger Gauntlet |
None |
| Medium Melee | 2 | Short Sword Hand Axe Small Mace |
Requires Physique 2 to wield |
| Large Melee | 3 | Long Sword Battle Axe Spear |
Requires Physique 3 to wield |
| Very Large Melee | 4 | Greatsword Halberd Warhammer |
Requires Physique 4 to wield |
| Small Thrown | 1 | Throwing Knife | Max effective range in feet = 10 + (5 x Physique) |
| Medium Thrown | 2 | Throwing Axe Throwing Hammer |
Max effective range in feet = 5 + (5 x Physique) |
| Sling | 2 | Sling Staff Sling |
Max effective range in feet = 50 + (5 x Physique) |
| Small Bow | 3 | Short Bow Hunting Bow |
Max effective range = 100 feet |
| Large Bow | 4 | Long Bow Compound Bow |
Max effective range = 200 feet |
| Light Crossbow | 5 | Requires 1 full round to reload Do not add wielder's Physique to weapon's damage Max effective range = 200 feet |
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| Heavy Crossbow | 6 | Requires 2 full rounds to reload Do not add wielder's Physique to weapon's damage Max effective range = 300 feet |
Note that despite the fact that a dagger is listed as doing less damage than an axe,
this doesn't mean that I believe that it always takes longer to kill someone with a
knife than with a hatchet. Obviously even the smallest knife (or even barehanded
punch) is sufficient to kill someone with one blow, if it is well-aimed and forceful
enough. But this aspect is taken into account by the Critical Success rule (see
Rules section) when applied to damage.