Improvised Weapon for Games: The Crowbar
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Ah yes, I can return to UA-cams as the renovation ends, and here’s a video about a great improvised weapon: It’s the Crowbar!
Whether you’re fighting head-crabs in Half-Life or assaulted by ghouls while trying to open a sarcophagus, this is a very handy tool that has three ways to deal out damage!
Join me as I briefly discuss the merits of this hunk of metal and keep it in mind for your next ttrpg experience, because it does pack a punch!
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yay, new video!
Crowbar has so many uses!!!
It’s fantastic, and I’m tempted to ship mine in the move now.
Hey Lauren, it’s nice to hear that you’re and your kitten feeling well.
I live in Germany and like in England, self defense is not allowed. It’s not considered socially appropriate. You should call the police and with a little happiness they will come in 2 or 3 hours 😂.
So I think the crowbar (here we call it cow foot) is a good option for home defense but not outside the own home. I keep one of them in my garage in the basement as a tool. In my flat I have enough wooden and edged weapons, so I don’t need this tool 😊
Mostly I like it for fiction. Games and what not, makes sense. In real life, running is always the best option when possible. When not…I turn to the advice of my friend Tommy Moore, boxer, bartitsu martial artist, and more. Were I not travelling I’d link his channel.
Gonna start calling my crowbar a bec de corbin
Haha absolutely you should! It works the same way to grab hold and move things.
in brazil we call this "goat foot", pe de cabra.
wrench is a good weapon too.
Goat foot! That makes a lot of sense. The hoof of nail removal! Very cool.
In some regions of Germany the German equivalent of "goat foot" is in use: "Geißfuß", also "Cow´s foot" or Kuhfuß is common.
I hope you and Maya are doing well! Crowbars are neat but I have to say i think the standard sized ones are kind of the wrong size to be an ideal weapon. I think a smaller crowbar or tire iron would actually be more hand than ones like you see in half life or deus ex because they are heavy enough you'd want to use them in two hands, but in that case they are a bit short. In 5e I'd maybe maybe make it 1d6 2 handed because that's no longer a strength modifier, but then its still comparing to things like the great club which is 1d8 in two hands or a quarterstaff which is 1d6 in one hand, 1d8 in two it seems underwhelming because those are just sticks... Maybe if damage types are relevant it could do a mix of blunt and piercing damage from the chisel/beak ends?
Also just so I have the chance to share it, my current dnd character is a cat boy shifter, basically part werecreature, so he can puff up into the intimidating beast form... Where upon he looks like man-sized a grompy orange Pallas's Cat, and his signature weapons are either a warhammer and shield, or a pair of light hammers he can throw and that magically bounce back to him. He calls them his bonking sticks, and i think more games need bonking options like that.
We are well, thank you! I like the idea of a giant puffed up Pallas cat. Awesome!
A mix of damage, blunt or piercing, yes, i like your damage suggestions, that’s pretty good. Would love to see it tested!
I’m in England so self defence is not allowed 🤣
I’ll text the police and get a crime #.
Haha well, head on a swivel and hope the coppers will get round to saving you in 3-5 business days!
Uh, if you are using it with both hands you can hold near one end and have reach and power
Perhaps I am too focused on holding it like a mini poleaxe, looking for the control of getting it into the gap of armour. This now warrants a target setup and testing, because yes, I could do that.
@@LaurenDangerShaw the chance of encountering a modern opponent in full body armor is slim. if you do you likely have other difficulties such as guns.
the poleaxe was a special-purpose weapon which depended in part on length as well as blade and spikes. not all of the assumptions hold with a shorter impact weapon
another way is to hold it with the hands widely spaced and slide the dominant hand to the non-dominant one for powerful swings. or thrust with the pointy end, come up with the other end and then up into the chin followed by into the face with the other. end. straight out of older bayonet and riot baton training.
there's a wealth of information about how to use those intermediate length clubby things. a crowbar can inflict disabling or lethal damage if you know where and how to hit with it.
I’m mostly discussing it as a fictional situation in games because I told my ttrpg friends I would, but I appreciate the information. As for weapon uses historically, I’m good with the manuals I have, but thank you for suggestions.
@@LaurenDangerShaw Ah. That makes sense. Many years of playing with weeapons have turned me mayhem-geekish