AwesomeButton
Proud owner of BG 3: Day of Swen's Tentacle
Luckmann is correct. Terminology was not a static thing, many weapons were called something by contemporaries which was not what they are called today, there wasn't a central authority or list of standards that a weapon had to stick to in order to be "correctly" called a given name. From my incomplete and non-specialist knowledge, broadswords, longswords, etc. were mostly just called "swords" in the 16th century. I'm not an expert on the subject by any means. But I always enjoy the outbursts of expertise, be it in military history or naval ship classifications
D&D books sometimes also get things wrong, in part because they were written long ago, in part because the real military history nerds stayed with the wargames and didn't move to D&D I guess, and in general they take use historical info for inspiration, don't strive to be correct in terminology. Josh is in fact more keen on sticking to correct terminology and to a "feel" of the early 16th century than would be the norm in D&D source books. Or at least that's my impression.
D&D books sometimes also get things wrong, in part because they were written long ago, in part because the real military history nerds stayed with the wargames and didn't move to D&D I guess, and in general they take use historical info for inspiration, don't strive to be correct in terminology. Josh is in fact more keen on sticking to correct terminology and to a "feel" of the early 16th century than would be the norm in D&D source books. Or at least that's my impression.