1453-1630) and roleplaying games named after medieval weapons. Beginning in the Seax and single-edged Germanic swords of the Iron Age, a weapon with a big cutting blade mounted as a knife was celebrating a popularity as a functional and no-nonsense sidearm of warriors and civilians alike through the ages Kriegsmesser is a tabletop RPG zine that was created for #zinequest 2021.
(Kriegsmesser) The great combat knife has had a long tradition in Europe. The styles vary from straight narrow bladed pieces to some large curved swords with blades. Surviving examples can be found in several museum and armory collections. The Kriegsmesser (War Knife) or Grosse Messer (Great Knife) of the late medieval period was a weapon of soldiers in the many wars that plagued that time.