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Underrail => Suggestions => Topic started by: Albert Altmann on November 12, 2026, 11:08:20 am
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This concept is based on Tiěbiān – Chinese ‘bar mace’, a hybrid between a light mace and a sword. In terms of practicality, it was designed to break swords and be effective against armoured opponents, as any mace ought to be.
The latter is reflected in the inherent Bone Breaker property and, to an extent, in the lack of any penalty to mechanical penetration, despite being a sword.
The former is reflected, quite obviously, in the conditional on-equip effect of incurring greater durability damage to the offender’s weapon upon parrying, as well as a special ability with a self-explanatory name.
I considered keeping the design closer to the real world ‘bar mace’ by narrowing down its sword-breaking capacity to dealing heavy durability damage to the sword/knife of any opponent that attempts to Parry your strikes, all the while fully bypassing their Parry block amount. However, since the overall weapon-breaking theme is already niche to the point of near total irrelevance, rendering it even more niche seemed rather unnecessary.