Doesn't it just bug YOU that video games use all these names interchangeably and you can't tell what a weapon will actually be like from the description? Too often I've bought a 'ranseur' that turned out to be a partisan, or a 'halberd' that looked like just some gussied-up billhook.
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(joke is courtesy of the nethack.alt.org IRC channel)
> barbarians
Sorry, I just had to.