>future-proof sword design
What does this mean?
A sword that can cut through time
>>44358791
It means i can still beat it with a polearm
The Soul Reaver?
It anticipates the next step in armor design, and works to counteract it.
A sword designed so badly it will not be used now, nor ever in the future.
>>44358791
It's not prone to oxidation or corrosion.
Rolled 6 (1d20)
>>44358791
1) The sword will never rust or blunt
2) The sword does more damage to creatures younger than you are
3) The sword's blade is actually 5 seconds in the future
4) The sword is one hand of a large arcanomechanical clock, which can be used to reverse time if matched with the other hands
5) The sword easily penetrates through all non-physical defenses
6) The sword doesn't just kill its victims, but destroys their ghosts too
7) The sword whispers to you the truth of who you are meant to become
8) Once the king is dead, the sword will always return to the stone
9) The blade of the sword is uninterpretable and blinding to human eyes
10) The sword doesn't cut physically, but cuts time. Each strike will age a person or object by 10 years
11) All swords made after this sword will instantly shatter when they come into contact with it
12) The sword is one of many ancient blades that can absorb each other to become greater and more powerful. The wielder is destined to seek out the other blades until only one remains
13) The sword cannot kill anyone destined to have a great impact on history
14) If the sword is planted square in the earth nothing for a mile around will age or change as time passes
15) Creatures slain by the sword simply revert to their newborn state
16) If the wielder of the sword is slain, his mind reincarnates in the mind of his killer
17) The creature who picks up the sword actually dies there and then, and becomes undead, but will not rot until the sword is no longer in their possession
18) The sword refuses to be drawn until the right time
19) The sword can be locked in place and time, and will remain static and immovable in both until the owner reverses the lock
20) When the sword is drawn, everything in a nearby radius ages or regresses in age by 1d100 years
>>44358791
they have proof that it's so shitty noone in the future will ever use it
>>44358791
Why was history so retarded.
>>44358948
What do you mean by that?
Why did people do dumb things in the past? That one's easy: nobody had done it before. A lot of people seem to have trouble understanding what that really means; chiefly the idea of having literally 0 frames of reference for how to do any of it. Today we have a much, much grander and more accurate record of human history; reference to how people did things before. Even though people have been making swords for hundreds/thousands of years (depending on when we're talking about this hypothetical blacksmith:) any given blacksmith would likely have only known what he had seen in-person, and what his master had taught him. He'd never seen swords from antiquity, or even modern arms from other countries. People often re-did things people somewhere else had already tried, only to find out what they found out: that it didn't work, but there was no way for them to know it wouldn't work, let alone that anyone else had ever tried it before, because even up through the renaissance relics and artifacts were much more scarce than they are today, and more closely guarded; often belonging to private collections, or private collections that could only be viewed if you belonged to a specific guild/college/family/etc.
>TL;DR
They had no frame of reference for what did and didn't work, so they had to try everything out for themselves because there was no way for them to know it didn't work otherwise.
>>44358791
A sword that can't be futured or resistant to futures.
>>44358817
>not horse and lance
Probably some kind of sword that can beat any personal armour that may be developed, any type of shielding, and still manage to be effective in a (predicted) gun heavy environment.
>>44358948
>history
>not Anglo-Saxons
That sword's a 19th century tourist item, Anon. It was made for Anglo tourists.
>>44358791
It's called a spear
>>44359425
>Anglo-Saxons
>not Based Normans
>>44358791
>>future-proof sword design
>What does this mean?
A bayonet that can bit fitted to any gun.
>>44358791
I'm willing to bet it was made as a decorative piece resembling a scorpion tail.
>future-proof sword design
It means it will travel through time...by aging.
>>44358828
Probably this. Like how a next-generation fighter plane will already have counter-measures against emerging technologies intended to defeat the current generation.
Though it seems pointless unless the weapon is equally good against current armor designs as well. The weapon in the op's pic looks... awkwardly designed. Sort of like the next-generation fighter planes. Hah.
>>44358911
>19
CLANG!
>>44359858
It's Indian, so there's a very strong chance it wasn't.
>>44358911
>9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqrShTpQg5M
>>44358791
That the salesman is trying to trick you
>>44360218
Thought that was gonna be from that Dragon Quest parody series for a minute.
>>44359330
Polearm is infinitely superior to horse and lance, because you can actually use them against a tercio.
>>44359503
>being a Norman sympathiser
Anon, perhaps this website isn't for you...
>>44358911
>19) The sword can be locked in place and time, and will remain static and immovable in both until the owner reverses the lock
>locked in time
That just means it disappears, since the universe would keep moving through time without it. You'd need some good time-shenanigans to get it back.
I always figured an estoc would be pretty useful, but
>>44359330
has it right.
>>44361823
Or just reversing the lock like it says.
>>44361956
How can you turn a lock that's stuck five seconds in the past?
>>44358791
It can harm beings of the fourth dimension.
>>44362035
>a lock mechanism must be right next to the door it opens
>>44362147
I figured it was part of the sword, not a separate thing
Rolled 8 (1d20)
>>44358911
Dicing
>>44362235
My assumption would be that it responds to a mental command of some kind if you're it's owner.
>>44358791
A design so good it will never need any tweaking
>>44358911
>15) Creatures slain by the sword simply revert to their newborn state
I like this one for some reason.
>>44362390
the perfect blade for any paladin looking to end evil and give it a second chance. When words don't work, a sword shaped reset button will!
>>44362390
Baby kobolds everywhere.
>>44362390
>>44362428
>Another adventurer... eaten alive by a pack of baby kobolds!
>>44362035
Clearly this works by some sort of magic. There must be a sort of keyword or incantation.
This makes for some interesting possibilities. Should one wish to easily kill their opponent, they need only put it in a time lock and remember where the sword is, then have their enemy stand in the same spot and reverse the lock. You could of course coat it in potent poison if you wished to be absolutely sure, assuming the poison wouldn't just fall to the ground once the sword is locked.
>>44359503
Normans were French.
Anglos basically built their culture around how they're not mad that they aren't French any longer. And around denying that they've been ruled by French, Dutch and German dynasties in succession.
>>44362349
>>44358791
How about a sword you can put on top of a portable, multi-par spear. Sword for close quarters, spear for group based combat.
You'd be able to unlock the spear to take out the sword and take apart the spear so you can carry it on your back. Inside of a castle's corridors, a spear usually won't do much good.
>>44362390
We Monmusu Quest now
>>44358911
>13) The sword cannot kill anyone destined to have a great impact on history
That would suck. To not only get killed, but to have it confirmed that you were never meant to be anyone important anyway.
>>44364316
It's pretty useful in some ways though. Like an in-universe way to check if an NPC is plot important.
>>44364098
>Normans were French.
You say that like it is a bad thing. There is a reason French specialize in the science of warfare.
>>44358791
not a god dam thing
To actually "futureproof" a sword, you'd have to buy a long-term contract with a smithing interest that allows you to trade in your current weapon for one that utilizes the latest techniques and technologies (So it never becomes obsolete), and get it repaired at any time (So it never becomes useless from wear or damage).
>>44358791
When you wield the sword, it puts you into a quantum state of two distinct possibilities. Every round, you are able to take two actions, determine their outcomes for the round, and then decide which reality actually takes place.
You are proofed against follies of immediate future. It's pretty powerful.
The sword only exists in the present and the past, not the future. Which arguably makes it just a regular sword 99.9% of the time. Except for that one guy who claims to be a master swordsman, but really he's just mediocre and can just see a bit into the future and beats his opponents by reading them that way. It exists purely to screw with that guy, because fuck that guy.
>>44362390
hora hora
Rolled 20 (1d20)
>>44358911
>7)
And if you are a nobody then you can use the sword to kill yourself.
Rolled 5 (1d20)
>>44358911
Let's try. I usually suck at rolls, so I expect 18 or 13.
>>44370407
So it's just anti-magic sword. Can be worse.
