Weapon (d4)

I copied it from the old poll.

Then the creator of the old poll messed up.

mainly based on D&D

Well, there are already enough mistakes there, and they even made more mistakes here. After all, in D&D, a dagger and a short sword are different categories of weapons. As are staves and fists, as are a katana and a wakizashi, as are a spear and a halberd, a bow, a crossbow, and a sling – these are all different weapons in D&D. And if you're going to create a poll about D&D weapons, you need at least 50 items, or even all 100, because they came up with a lot of stuff there. Of course, I'm talking about the third edition; I'm not that familiar with the second edition (in the sense that I read the main books, but not the additional ones), and the fourth edition is heresy.

This is, in fact, an adaptation of a two-handed sword for mounted knights. A normal one is heavier than them, so a step was taken towards "ordinary" swords.

Well, still, we shouldn't forget that real life is not a computer game where all units of the same type have the same weapon. Initially, yes, a bastard sword most likely appeared as an adaptation of a simple sword for cavalrymen, because a two-handed sword was too heavy for them, and it was difficult to reach the infantry with a regular one-handed sword without falling off the horse, and only in the second place was the problem of the weight of the two-handed sword. But to say that a bastard sword is a weapon for mounted knights is incorrect; for example, our Alexander Nevsky fought with a bastard sword, but he was neither a knight nor a cavalryman. In general, Wolf said it correctly, and it's silly to post incorrect comments with a smart look