User blog comment:PinkiepiePartyMonst/Weapons, What is acceptable and what just isn't/@comment-1617565-20130106054923

Alrighty, my turn to comment, and I'll break my opinions down under the sections you used too, just to make discussion easy:

Hammers: I agree with you on the Piko-Piko hammers, way overused and frankly just plain old lazy in terms of character design. If you want a character with a hammer, get a Maul or a Sledgehammer, leave the Piko to Amy.

Swords: Swords themselves are completely fine in my book, it's simply how people tend to use them I've got a problem with. Most people don't bother to think of the type of blade that they're using and how it should affect their character's fighting style and half of them don't even specify the form of blade it is. Even when they do pick a type of blade, it's most commonly a katana simply because people think that they're cool and not because it actually makes sense for the character to have. Now if you've got a well developed character who has a reason for having a katana and using it in combat, more power to you, especially if you get the fighting style right. However a lot of people don't think into that and that's what bugs me about it. It's also the reason my main sword-fighter, Hunter the Fox uses only blunt weapons when it comes to melee fighting in his latest rendition, because I realized he didn't really have a reason to use swords other than I wanted him to. I've still got to update his page though, because I'm lazy. ^^;

Guns: They have a place on mobius, and if you think otherwise you're a fool IMO. Think about it: Wars are fought on mobius. There are military parties fighting these wars, one of which mainly uses robots to do the fighting. What do you think these robots use? Candy? No, they either use some form of projectile weapon (i.e. Guns and Rocket Launchers) or lazers, which are the next step in the evolution of "guns" in many "futures." So, if this is true, then why would the other military parties use only archaic weapons? (bows, arrows, swords and stuff) Catch my drift?

That having been said, characters need a reason to own and use these guns. Seriously, I saw this character who owned a freaking AK-200 (the gun actually exists, mind you) for no given reason at the age of 16. Does that compute? Now, if she were to be inducted into a military unit and given proper training in it, then that could be passable, but as it stands that's just plain broken.

Oh, and as for your comments to how guns can end fights fast: That's what they were made for, silly. Don't bring a knife to a firefight unless you know you can get close enough to use it.

"Boxing Gloves": Same thing I said about the Piko-Piko hammer stands here. You want a character who has spikey punches? Give them spikey brass knuckles. Problem solved.

Wooden Weapons: Characters can use them if they want, just give them an actual reason to use them and don't try and say it can block a sword unless you've got reasons to back it up.

Enchanted Weapons: The main problem people have with these is people don't bother balancing them or even giving a good reason for them. A character just happens to have a sword that is supposedly three times sharper than the modern razor (I call these "Vorpal Swords" in my stories) and yet they don't even bother to tell you how they got them. Laaaaaaaaaazy.