Sorcerer in training
- As the popular song reminds us, A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob on the End. So they're not quite "simple" staves.
I think this could be an example with rewriting, but apparently the person who put it in completely missed the Nanny Ogg-approved alternate meaning to staff and knob.
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Split magical and melee examples into seperate tropes
, started by NoirGrimoir on Oct 16th 2011 at 6:35:32 AM
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So I haven't the foggiest how to do so, but I found a Youtube video of Kilik from the Soul Calibur series that would serve well as a video example for Simple Staff.
I think what bears mentioning is the staff's versatility. One of the very reasons why it's so often a weapon of choice and so highly regarded by martial artists is that the staff is a weapon of unmatched versatility. It can be used for strikes and thrusts with good reach in two different types of grip and at middle distance it works as a double-ended weapon in halfstaff grip which has also two variants. It allows practically all maneuvers that swords AND polearms have (save some hooking maneuvers).
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Anyone else think this page should be split into two tropes, magician's staffs and staffs as weapons? It seems weird to have it as both, since there are plenty of Magician's who have magic staffs as a Magic Wand, both don't use them as melee weapons at all. That or add Magic Staff as a redirect to Magic wand and move magic-only weapons there.
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I've noticed that there is no mention in the introduction stating how deadly a staff can be. It makes it out to be a passive weapon for characters(which is very much true), but they are capable of breaking bones, cracking skulls, and liquifying inards.
Should this be mentioned at all?
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The first paragraph says it's "frequently referred to as the deadliest melee weapon ever created," then goes on to talk about the different types of staffs and just how deadly they can be.
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Oh, I didn't notice that line. But the rest of the page goes out to how it is usually a safe weapon, and if you want a deadlier one, make it into a spear, or have concealed weapons and the like in the staff, making it not so simple.
I only bring it up because the description of the mace or warhammer casts those weapons in a much more brutal light, giving emphasis that they are just as deadly -if not more- than their bladed counterparts. I figured more emphasis should be given here.
This trope has been renamed and refined to Martial Arts Staff. The old name is now a disambiguation. Here's the link to the TRS thread
that made this decision.
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