My MC grew up in a modern city. He's never been in so much as a fistfight, let alone used any weapon. Now he's stuck in an alternate universe, about to face a bunch of enemies. I've given him a medium-length spear (I figured it would be lighter and easier to handle than a sword, have more range than a knife so he won't need to get all up in his ( Read more... )

[I am so sorry, anons! Life smacked me pretty hard the past couple of weeks, and so I got lax about posting these in a timely fashion. Onto the questions.]I have two questions about tasers ( Read more... )

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In an original story of mine, I have a character who uses a Mongolian bow (aka composite or recurved bow), and I've gotten almost everything I need to know about them; how they're made, how long it takes to make them, how they look unstrung, the thumb draw, thumb rings, all that good stuff ( Read more... )

Heya, guys.

Obviously, I'm in need of some help. I don't know nearly as much about weapons as I should, seeing as how nearly every single character of mine uses something on a regular basis.

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Time: nearish future, maybe 15 years from now. Place: continental US, possibly also Canada and/or Mexico. Our Heroine does have a passport, if that's relevant ( Read more... )

I'm working on a Batman story involving Cassandra Cain. For anyone not aware of her, she was trained to be a fighter (or more accurately, an assassin) by reading body language as if it were an actual language, but in order to do this, her father kept her from learning to speak or read. She later (magically) learned to speak English, but had ( Read more... )

I have a character who's going to be making throwing knives out of car springs. I've looked up knife forging on google, The Knife Steel FAQ by Joe Talmadge, and also in American Survival Guide magazine ( Read more... )

Setting is contemporary but it might as well not be, as my characters are working with homemade medieval-style bows (long for men, short for women) and arrows.

I have searched: medieval shortbow; what's the longest distance you can shoot accurately with a shortbow (and various permutations thereof); target archery women primitive; and various ( Read more... )

I'm writing a fanfiction which will centre around a complete beginner, a time traveller, learning archery in Sherwood Forest. I think Robin Hood was based in the 12th century, but there's a chance given the hour of the morning I have my dates wrong. Richard the First was around 1193 if memory serves, and Robin was supposed to fight with him in the ( Read more... )