Is there a recruitable party member who is proficient in flails/morningstar?
superluccix
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Just assembled this weapon. Seems powerful, but I got nobody so far who can use it proficiently. Is there anybody in the game who I could potentially recruit that could use it?
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I have to say I only managed to get through BG1 in the EE version and even that was with difficulty and simply because I wanted to enter SoD "properly". It's still rubbish, as a game, if you ask me. But BG2 is the best game of all time.
As for BG1: the story is all over the place, there's no banter, you need to walk around an awful lot on maps that contain nothing interesting, the quests are stupefyingly simplistic, and so on. All of this was thankfully absent from BG2.
In the BG series, "extra training" is shown by adding a pip to those weapons on the proficiency section. And, since D&D 2E puts limits on what classes can use what, you're not going to have everyone using a flail just because they have hands. lol
Larger swords were expensive to make, required years of practice, and were generally restricted to higher social classes. The D&D longsword, bastard sword, and two-handed sword are really the same weapon from different eras. As armor technology improved, swords grew bigger, and eventually people stopped using shields with them.
Various axes and maces were also widely used, especially in the early Middle Ages. They were also cheaper than swords. Later, as infantry weapons generally grew longer, they became primarily cavalry weapons. Morning stars and war hammers were relatively late inventions that never saw widespread use.
A flail is probably not even a real weapon.
Basically, the short version is that flails did exist historically, as attested to in original historical sources, although they were pretty rare. Both short-handled, one-handed flails and long-handled, two-handed flails existed. Both chain-and-ball and two-rods-stuck-together (like the agricultural device) flails existed and were used for war. Multi-headed flails existed but were rare even among flails. All of the above were primarily meant for combat between armored individuals.
In addition, flail chains were usually of such a length that it was impossible to hit yourself in normal, competent use (in the one Matt Easton shows in the video, the flail is literally not long enough to hit the hand he's holding it with). Even when flails had longer chains, the physics involved make it extremely unlikely for a remotely competent wielder to be struck by the flail, and if that does somehow happen, it's not going to hit very hard. Since flails were generally used by people in heavy armor, being hit lightly isn't much of a concern.