Technically, it was a 1st edition D&D rule that got grandfathered in to pretty much everything for decades to come. Although even then it was pretty questionable.
Technically, it was a 1st edition D&D rule that got grandfathered in to pretty much everything for decades to come. Although even then it was pretty questionable.
Honestly my first interaction with the whole "priests and blunt style weapons" was actually in Medieval 2 Total War. Denmark could recruit Norse War Priests from their cathedrals. They were basically cavalry with maces
Technically, it was a 1st edition D&D rule that got grandfathered in to pretty much everything for decades to come. Although even then it was pretty questionable.
I always figured it had something to do with an idealized image of a holy war where armored armies clash (the kind of thing maces are good at countering) rather than the atrocity filled disorganized mess crusades etc actually were IRL. Guess I wasn't too far off the mark.