Myths you hate about d&d

1) The longsword was used in war
a: Neither the English, the French, or the Germans ever used long swords in battle. The longswords and broadswords were only carried by high nobility and their bodyguards. They were incredibly shitty weapons.

2) Banded Mail was a thing
b: Banded mail left you vulnerable by stabbing through the bands and up towards the chest.

3) Knights used two handed Hammers, Swords and Axes.
c: Outside of polearms, spears, halberds and the like, armies rarely ever used two handed melee weapons.
4) You can use polearms in melee combat.
d: Even awkwardly gripping a polearm by the haft, polearms are extremely awkward to use outside of rank and file combat. After the initial charge, people would often drop their polearm weapon and draw another.
5) Dual Wielding is a thing.
I don't so much hate this one for its style so much as it is teaching kids to fight like ninnies. Dual Wielding is much less effective than fighting with a shield.

longswords and broadswords were basically blunt weapons, nobles rarely if ever performed routine maintenance on their swords because they were hardly ever expected to see battle.

Many of them were never sharpened at all past the initial forging process, they simply sat in their sheath for years on end, only brought out when training and dueling.

Nobility would rather surrender at the end of a fight and be taking captive and held for ransom than they would take their chances fighting after their rear guard had fallen.

Fighting with sword and shield is a form of dual-wielding, dipshit.

Also, confirmed for never having seen a pollax, if you think polearms are too long to use in single combat.

Also missed
>even awkwardly gripping a polearm by the haft
where the fuck would you grab it, then, by the fucking head?

Yeah let's just put a dystentery modifier in our campaigns too because realism is so much fun

Studded leather.
Somehow little knobs of metal are supposed to make a piece of armour more effective.

>You can use polearms in melee combat.

But a poleaxe is literally meant to be used in a melee.

Games don't have to be hyper realistic, but they could at least try to make some fucking sense.

The sword is a sidearm.

There is literally no reason not to dual wield if you have two hands.