Great axe
A two-handed axe that cleaves through padding.
| Worn | Both hands |
| Weight | 3.5 kg, whatever its tier |
| Sold by | The weaponsmith |
| Price | crude 3 silver 6 copper, poor 12 silver, common 24 silver, fine 72 silver, masterwork 2 gold 40 silver |
| Damage | 1.7 |
| Reach | 0.3 m more than a sword |
| Wind-up | 0.3 s slower |
Its cuts and overheads cleave: padding and leather stop only half of what they would. A thrust with it is a blunt push, 0.4 of a blow. Held in both hands, it leaves no hand for a shield, which stays slung on the back and guards nothing. Swung sideways in a press, it snags on a tree, a wall or a man of its own side within half a metre of its arc: the blow lands on nobody and takes half a second more to free. Overheads and thrusts never snag. A miss with it leaves its man about 0.3 s more to recover. A crude weapon hits 0.6 times as hard as a common one, a poor one 0.75, a fine one 1.25 and a masterwork 1.4.
Made from
Section titled “Made from”A common piece takes 3.5 kg of iron, 2 kg of timber. A crude one takes 0.6 of that, a poor one three quarters, a fine one half again and a masterwork twice. Traders buy what they lack from the town’s market, so a town with no iron soon has none to sell.