>>5658351I do not know if it was the same anon, but I remember in my dungeon quest that was emulating the feel / look of Dungeoneer and the old HeroQuest board games, the first weapon pick for the dwarf was mattocks
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5481242/#5481275https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5481242/#5481313I was confused at first I could not find a good medieval picture argh and I was just expecting something like battleaxe or warhammer etc but then I remembered where I originally learnt the word mattocks from hehe and indeed it was from this very introduction paragraph (pic related, from the intro section of this gamebook) I
I don't know if this is what the anon deliberately intended but it also made me very happy yay. This might be a bit too hardcore in terms of gamebook and fantasy rpg lore though hehe.
That Heroquest book (it is a combined novel and gamebook) also has some very obscure archaic vocabulary, I was actually quite surprised at the literary erudtion of some of the words (strepitant? creance? pipistrelle? transom?) lol
