This impressive landscape shows a tomb shaped like a giant sword set between two cliffs. A field of broken swords stretches out in front. It is the creation of skilful lego builder Lisqr who clearly as an eye for photography as well. It looks very much as if this LEGO landscape would work well as […]
Longsword Competition winner: Samantha Swords
Samantha Swords has a great name. She’s also a great person. Why? In a hobby dominated by men and all too prone to attracting men who need to think again about their attitude to women in their hobby, Samantha Swords won the longsword competition at a World Invitational Tournament. Her job? A technician at Weta […]
Making Link’s Master Sword in real life could kill you
In many ways this is an interesting video. It shows some modern expert blacksmiths making Legend of Zelda’s Master Sword. This is Link’s Master Sword. It is just a recreation of course but the sword itself is just cut from a sheet of steel. Does that mean it’s weak? Not at all; watch to end […]
Creating the Soul Edge from Soul Calibur 5
Soul Edge is the main antagonist in the computer game series Soul Calibur. The sword was created by humans and was once an impressive but ordinary sword. The weapon developed its own wicked soul after being covered in blood and involved in hate crimes for so long. Anyone who grasps the sword are cursed by […]
Fantasy swords made real
“Get ready for battle,” says Armor Venue. They’re a site that sells metal armour, helmets, swords and shields along with a host of LARP weapons. Tucked away in a large collection are some fantasy weapons made real. Zelda Twlight Princess sword More details The Vampire sword More details Sword of the Mighty Warrior More details
It’s real: a taser sword
How many times have you heard a GM tell a player they couldn’t have such’n’such a weapon because it wasn’t realistic? I suspect a taser sword might fall into that category; even for some near future sci-fi games. After all, how would you persuade the taser to release its energy down the sword evenly and […]
Fire sword fight
This fight isn’t suitable for LARP but it’s still awfully cool. Wait, no, strike that – cool is the wrong word to use. This is a flaming sword fight, carefully practised but still dangerous. I think this video will get a spike in views as we approach some of the flaming sword scenes in Game […]
Swordwoman transformation
I like this video for two reasons. This is cleary a display of fantastic sword skill. The first blow cuts the bamboo so cleanly that it does not topple and the second blow comes above the first cut, hits the bamboo that’s no longer being held by the grip and still manages to slice through. […]
Sword fighting with shadows
This takes shadow puppets to a whole new level. In a rather stunning display of swordsmanship and shadow puppetry. The artist is Taichi Saotome – who is our swordsman – is best known for playing young men and women has stared in a number of period pieces and theatrical roles. What did you think of […]
What would it be like to fight with Cloud’s Final Fantasy VII sword?
It turns out that weilding the Buster sword isn’t very easy. However, on the plus side, if you can swing it then the weight alone will do damage to anything you manage to hit with it. Which would you rather enter melee combat with? This sword of a knife? For the purposes of this question […]
