Best reason for a character to use a wooden rather than metal sword

HE'S A FUCKING DRUID

I did this once, we were playing DnD, I wanted a sword and only had simple weapon proficiency. Enter the wooden club carved to look like a sword.

Seriously, fuck DnD.

They're playing Cricket

He is super good at swords so he uses a wood one so other people don't feel bad they are not as good at swords like him.

It's safer than a metal sword.

It's a petrified wood sword. Harder than steel, composed of ancient, enchanted trees; it is the hot knife to the enemies' snow

Was initially given the wooden sword to train with (stepping up to a metal sword once they learn the basics), but their village was attacked and they had to escape with the shitty wooden sword. Grew an attachment to it

You're in Rust Monster country.

>kobolds protecting only fresh water source
>giant palm tree worshipping coconut crabs
>ship wrecked pirates, access to last few metal weapons

Holy shit I'm doing this.

This is the BBEG

They can't channel their ki through metal.

He's only comfortable using a sword, but whatever he's fighting against has dangerous blood. Sure, bludgeons can draw blood, but it's less likely to spray everywhere and the benefits of using a weapon you're actually good at using outweigh the downside of using a somewhat less efficient one.

Elves. Yes, the sword is just one big piece of wood. But its workmanship is insanely good and its actually better than the gear you are carrying.

Its elvish tradition to, after a fight, leave the sword stuck into the body of the foe you found most worthy. The sword will take root and a tree will grow on that spot to commemorate the battle.

This is, in fact, how elvish forests get their start. The elves don't defend the trees because of an obsession with nature, they are defending their victory trophies and adding new trees to the forest.

Training.

He doesn't want to kill.

>joust do it

He's training to be a master swordsman and hasn't yet earned the right to carry steel.

Samurai druid. He needs to channel his nature powers through his wooden sword.

The character is Mapuche. When you make weapons out of a tree called "black ironwood" you know it's beyond the strength of a normal wooden weapon.

Bronze exists.

Since when?

Was looking for this answer. I found it. I am happy. You made me happy, user.

I think there was an era named after it.

He was summoned for a duel, but forgot his sword, so he had to carve a new one out of the oar on the boat he is taking to the duel.

Magic. Wants to just knock people out, not kill them. Swore an oath. Takes place in a setting where weapons are heavily controlled.

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The have wood manipulating powers and a wooden stick is a thousand times more dangerous in their hands than a bit of metal would be.

He feels that violence is wrong but still feels an impulse to wear the trappings of violence

He's a badass

>ironwood
>enchantments
>can carry it in a city

I'm stealing this.

Also , elves grow trees of ironwood into their desired shapes and thus one has to wait a decade to get a custom made elven weapon.

to fuck with that one wizard that specialised in heat metal
or for bragging rights

They're so skilled that it doesn't matter.

He's been challenged to a duel on a remote island by a renowned master, and said master is using a sword of a specific length for which you don't have a comparable weapon, and so you carve a longer weapon out of an oar just to take your game to the next level.

They don't like killing

TWO THINGS!

Easy way to temporarily enchant it into a flaming wooden sword.

He's a legendary swordsman, but after his family was murdered, he will immediately faint at the sight of blood. Instead of killing people, he just challenges a group's best warrior to a fight and humiliates them with a sheathed sword. No one knows his sword is wooden, and he acts like a suicidal badass, but deep down he knows he couldn't kill if his life depended on it.

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I'm more mad about the "Break Curfew by 1500 years" line.

Curfew is either a time of night that happens every day, and thus, he'd only be breaking curfew by however late he stays up in an era with no electricity, OR it starts on a specific day, like the 1500 years implies, but since he went BACK in time, he's out BEFORE curfew, and thus hasn't broke it.

He is a master of the sword to such a degree, that anything he deems a sword is capable of cutting whatever he wishes it to cut.

It was one of the more remotely sword shaped warclubs.

He has a rust monster as a pet.

I was looking for this.

Shit poor?

Quads don't lie.

>Because I want to do Slashing damage with Shillelagh.

she's a dryad from a mongolian-african region of a primordial past

I like this so much that I'm mad at myself for not thinking of it myself.

He doesn't ever intend to kill, because his interest in combat is as sport. It's like keeping dice or playing cards around, he likes to fiddle with it and wants to be able to use it whenever.

Moving a metallic sharp pole around is asking for a lightning bolt to fall on you

They're in Dark Sun.

Druidic Warriors fashion their weapons of wood or stone, allowing their natural magics to enhance them unhindered.

You just started your quest, and are yet to find the master sword

>Teeth katana vs teeth longsword

Shillelagh.

Metal Detectors

First thing I thought of too.

Very vague reference.
I like it.

it has a powerful forest spirit attached to it

I like it

You can't light a regular sword on fire and bludgeon people to a cinder with it

Hamon doesn't go through metals

Rust monster

Sparring you savages

Blunt and foiled steel is about as safe as wood, and gives you a slightly better feeling for the real thing, especially for swords that aren't all that stiff.

You can't run spirit energy through something that was never alive.

Bruford fight disagrees with metal silver overdrive. Metal can't keep the charge like wood can though if I understood correctly

The fire won't really do anything unless you hold it to the enemy for a while.

metal and stone can act as a conduit for hamon, but can't actually hold a charge.

At best, its a conductive wire.

It'll induce fear.

Family was eaten by metal golems made entirely out of swords.
They have a deep seated fear of all sharp metal objects, and thus have become masters of beating shit with sticks.

1. Swords are illegal
2. The swordman has vowed to never kill again
3. His culture has no knowledge of metalurgy
4. A folk lore hero who utilized an oar in duels has inspired this swordsman
5. He is in disguise, or possibly a trainee
6. He is a bounty hunter who specializes in taking his charges back alive, possibly because he likes to see them hang, or because the reward is greater if they come back alive.
7. Its not ordinary wood.
8. Its a wand disguised as a training weapon
9. The wooden sword was crafted from a home that was important to the swordsman years ago, an heirloom of what once was, but will never be again. He carries a piece of that memory with him everywhere now.

Wood was cheaper

>It's a petrified wood sword. Harder than steel, composed of ancient, enchanted trees; it is the hot knife to the enemies' snow

Knotted over a thousand times, forged in the mud of his enemies.

Will it?
I'd be more scared of a sword which might actually separate a limb than a club that's just going to hurt a bit, even if it's aflame at the start of the fight.

creatures with DR X / wood

You can't come up with an interesting, engaging or fun to play character without some form of visual gimmick

Metal is infectious.

If only you could just get a weapon that the elves had already been making for 10 years?

It will if you're a wild beast with no concept of fire.

That's because you are buying from the wrong vendors. Come to my shop and you'll get high grade steel with a guarantee of purity.

youtube.com/watch?v=TtXMyAOop3s

BRB watching fantasy Thunderbirds.

Wooden swords don't rust, duh

Instead they rot.

If you can't even keep a stick from rotting, then what is left?

>DUDES
>SWORDS

If you can't even keep a piece of metal from corroding, then what is left?
>amount of metal from dark and early middle ages still in prime condition: plenty
>amount of wood from dark and early middle ages still still in prime condition: 0

Archeologists can find still-sharp swords at the bottom of rivers. Good luck trying to find the corresponding wooden scabbards.

BBEG has the powers of Magneto

I know of rust monsters but not rot monsters.