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What I'm getting at is that people in these Fairy Tales and Myths were re-enacting had superior bodies. In superior armors, fire arms aren't as effective against them.

Do I have another 5 Might points? I only used 6 of 11.

No matter how much muscle or fat you got, a musket round to the chest will penetrate your armour and still kill you. Bigger may mean stronger, but they're still as fragile as normal humans when it comes to getting shot.

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No matter how much muscle or fat you got, a musket round to the chest will penetrate your armour and still kill you. Bigger may mean stronger, but they're still as fragile as normal humans when it comes to getting shot.

If they're creatures like Gargoyles, no. It takes a certain level of power to pierce them. If YHVH was angry at the world and sent down lightning bolts, you don't respond by shooting at him with a sniper rifle.

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Eh, full-plate armour was actually pretty light compared to the stuff everyday soldiery were trekking around in back in the day. You could easily roll around and even do back-flips (if you're acrobatic, of course) in full-plate armour.

You're right of course. Good armor didn't restrict movement very much at all, but that wasn't my point. I was just saying that it's heavy and the extra encumbrance will slow you down, be a huge pain on the march (whether you wear the armor or just lug it around), and of course affect your stamina in a fight.

I have some first hand experience since I've actually worn some replicas of Spanish conquistador arms and equipment. A suit of steel plate was easily something like 50 or 60 pounds, and while it distributes itself better than one might imagine that's still obviously going to be a big disadvantage over someone lightly armored.

It was actually a fairly common tactic to just skirmish a heavily armored enemy until they got tired and sloppy, then start half-swording to try to stab them through the joints and gaps in their armor. Of course, failing that you could always just shoot them with a longbow, bludgeon them with a mace or warhammer, stick them with a rondel knife...

I really like ancient and medieval warfare if you can't tell

@Cyclone You and me both brother xPP

@ActRaiserTheReturned At the moment we don't have orcs, gargoyles or any other trope fantasy creatures, it's only humans, who are pretty much the same as in our world, Uri, who don't have any kind of power against being stabbed, let alone shot, and the Cimex, who are equally vulnerable to stabbing and shooting.

And we also have dragons, whose scales offer very good protection, but certainly nothing to prevent a cannonball getting through without their magic wards.
We also have undead, but they're hardly invulnerable t physical attacks for the most part (unless they're ghosts)

@Cyclone You and me both brother xPP

@ActRaiserTheReturned At the moment we don't have orcs, gargoyles or any other trope fantasy creatures, it's only humans, who are pretty much the same as in our world, Uri, who don't have any kind of power against being stabbed, let alone shot, and the Cimex, who are equally vulnerable to stabbing and shooting.

And we also have dragons, whose scales offer very good protection, but certainly nothing to prevent a cannonball getting through without their magic wards.
We also have undead, but they're hardly invulnerable t physical attacks for the most part (unless they're ghosts)

Serpent Men are explicitly more durable.

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Serpent Men are explicitly more durable.

More durable than dragons?

...Uri, who don't have any kind of power against being stabbed, let alone shot...

Tch Tch, seems like you forgot that they can turn Super Saiyan now. Wouldn't want to forget that now, would we?

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More durable than dragons?

The answer is "NOOO!"
Also, I'm looking at an addition to my portfolio(s).

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Tch Tch, seems like you forgot that they can turn Super Saiyan now. Wouldn't want to forget that now, would we?

xDDD I meant in their natural planty state xP humans can use Wi to prevent themselves getting shot after all, doesn't stop their flesh from being nice and vulnerable when Thulemiz's ghouls descend on them.

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The answer is "NOOO!"
Also, I'm looking at an addition to my portfolio(s).

There we go, if dragon scales aren't invulnerable to cannonballs and shots, Serpent Men aren't either xP but I'm guessing they have magic and wards that help protect them.
What would you like to add?

You know what I just realized? You lot are all making books and libraries, but the entire world is illiterate. Nobody invented writing or reading that I can recall.

Nobody really taught humanity how to build castles either. We explained it a while ago by Humanity evolving on its own.

You know what I just realized? You lot are all making books and libraries, but the entire world is illiterate. Nobody invented writing or reading that I can recall.

That's why it isn't cheating.

@Cyclone You and me both brother xPP

@ActRaiserTheReturned At the moment we don't have orcs, gargoyles or any other trope fantasy creatures, it's only humans, who are pretty much the same as in our world, Uri, who don't have any kind of power against being stabbed, let alone shot, and the Cimex, who are equally vulnerable to stabbing and shooting.

And we also have dragons, whose scales offer very good protection, but certainly nothing to prevent a cannonball getting through without their magic wards.
We also have undead, but they're hardly invulnerable t physical attacks for the most part (unless they're ghosts)

Well we have 16o years to change that do we not, the Uri will become scarier than the plants from Plants vs Zombies! The Cimex will Poke-Evolve into a nicer but even stronger version of their current selves! Fear the future!!!

You know what I just realized? You lot are all making books and libraries, but the entire world is illiterate. Nobody invented writing or reading that I can recall.

Zerabil could always read and write, he was created with a huge amount of knowledge. As for reading and writing, they're green on the technology list. They've been green for a long while. I'd say that (rich) Garakains and Zerabil's people were literate. Confederates and Ialu's people never needed it, so it's understandable why they have not yet learned. Uristan, being quite an advanced kingdom, is probably full of literate people. Dragons, it would seem, are also avid readers.

Nobody really taught humanity how to build castles either. We explained it a while ago by Humanity evolving on its own.

This would make sense if humanity had existed with agriculture for more than the 20-30 years that they have, but as is I doubt they realistically would have invented anything on their own. There has hardly been any time and the population is small and spread apart.

I suppose I'll chalk it up to knowledge spreading from Zerabil.

Even in Pre-Neolithic/Pre-Bronze Era, there were world traders.

That's the problem with assuming Humanity was created merely 60 years ago.

That's the problem with assuming Humanity was created merely 60 years ago.

I agree. But it's what we've been going with to explain extremely small populations:

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I agree. But it's what we've been going with to explain extremely small populations:

Well, I suggested multiplying the world population by one thousand percent. A gentle recon that only requires adding a zero in post mentioning population.

Well, we're about to take a 160-175 year time skip, so issues will start resolving themselves xP

Also, Arguis is a god, he can read. Mirtagn is thousands, if not more, years old, so that explains him. Zerabil was born a reader, and Uri are the creations of Arguis, with the ability to pretty much suck knowledge from the very land during their birth. I only assumed Garakains read because they've got a city and something of an aristocracy.