It's best not to be getting into actual knife fights, yes. What's the saying? "The winner is the one who winds up in hospital."
Actually, that reminds me of back when I was playing in the SCA and living in Hyde Park, the one in Chicago. I had one friend who said he was carrying his feast dagger* at night in case of trouble. I asked him which of us had more training with edged weapons, and which one of us was carrying one. He said I was thinking too much like a period person in assuming that someone else carrying a knife would know how to use it.
A very head-desky moment, that.
*I never liked those things. A single-edged knife is a lot more useful for eating and everything else a body actually does with a knife.
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It's best not to be getting into actual knife fights, yes. What's the saying? "The winner is the one who winds up in hospital."
Actually, that reminds me of back when I was playing in the SCA and living in Hyde Park, the one in Chicago. I had one friend who said he was carrying his feast dagger* at night in case of trouble. I asked him which of us had more training with edged weapons, and which one of us was carrying one. He said I was thinking too much like a period person in assuming that someone else carrying a knife would know how to use it.
A very head-desky moment, that.
*I never liked those things. A single-edged knife is a lot more useful for eating and everything else a body actually does with a knife.