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WCDT Strips 3641 to 3645 (25th - 30th December 2017)
Eternal_Newbie:
So that's the real reason conservative Catholics have such a hate for Vatican II. Understandable, in this case.
Cornelius:
You know, crossbows , when they first came to Europe, were banned for use against fellow christians.
WoaLG:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 29 Dec 2017, 01:16 ---Specifically on the subject of the comic: I consider it the worst and most unforgivable discrimination that nuns are allowed to run around in skin-tight armoured robes and cutting the heads off of various fell monsters whilst priests are relegated to sitting in wooden boxes whilst listening to parishioners' problems and solving the occasional genteel murder mystery in the English countryside or suburban Chicago.
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Um, unless I'm mistaken, there's nothing preventing the priests from running around in skin-tight armoured robes and bashing in the skulls of various monsters. They just can't use an edged weapon. Clerics I play in DnD tend to be partial to maces anyway. Less blood, so that's disappointing. But there's more bone crunching noises, so it all evens out.
Bollthorn:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 29 Dec 2017, 02:33 ---You know, crossbows , when they first came to Europe, were banned for use against fellow christians.
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This is very true, but every weapon that was banned in Europe ended up in service anyway because they realized how fecking awesome it was. Like the German "Gute Nacht" variation of the morning star, which had two spiked balls on chains. One was slightly longer than the other, so the shorter one hooked the shield while the other whipped around the side and shattered the elbow. It was banned in 11 countries, and within two years 9 of the same countries were using them xD
--- Quote from: WoaLG on 29 Dec 2017, 02:36 --- Um, unless I'm mistaken, there's nothing preventing the priests from running around in skin-tight armoured robes and bashing in the skulls of various monsters. They just can't use an edged weapon. Clerics I play in DnD tend to be partial to maces anyway. Less blood, so that's disappointing. But there's more bone crunching noises, so it all evens out.
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That actually became a thing because in the 12th century the Pope decreed that priests weren't allowed to hack bits off in battle, because the idea was that when you're resurrected on the day of judgement, you're raised whole in your body, but if you have bits missing, this couldn't happen and you were automatically damned (which is why traitors were always beheaded), so it was decided that by hacking bits off people, the priesthood were pre-determining god's will, which was a big no-no. That's why priests started using maces instead, because you can smash someone's head into their chest no problem, but it doesn't hack bits off, so its okay :P But also, if you look at the bottom end of priest's staves, they still have a flanged mace head at the opposite end.
Sorry, used to do medieval re-enactment, so my history nerd is coming out ^_^
Bollthorn:
Another big beef people had with crossbows is that peasants now had weapons that were perfectly capable of killing a knight or lord, which went against the code of chivalry.
In fact, you know how Richard the Lionheart died? He was scouting a castle at dawn that his army were going to attack that day, and the castle cook saw a silhouette of one of the enemy force riding outside, so he just picked up his crossbow and stapled him to his saddle.
That's right, Richard the Lionheart didn't die in glorious combat or of ripe old age, he was shot by a cook with a crossbow.
And then, the cherry on the cake was that the cook was hanged, because he'd broken the code of chivalry! xD
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