Blade Brake: Difference between revisions

A variation is when the character slows his fall by stabbing his blade into a tall banner (or, on a sailing ship, the sail). The "stab the sail" version shows up in a bunch of old pirate movies and was busted by the ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]''.

* ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]'' tested the pirate movie version of this, where one uses a blade to slide down a sail. Myth busted. Specifically, too sharp a knife cuts too well to slow a person down, and no matter how sharp the knife was, hitting the seams in the sail caused the knife to jump out of the sail no matter how prepared the holder was. Also, as one of the historians pointed out, the guy who spent weeks ''making'' the sail would murder you when he found out.

* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' Monks are [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/classes/monk.htm#slowFall implied to do this] with their ''fists'' (said fists are strong enough to pierce an iron golem's body at that point, though) in their ability to stop any fall with a wall at level 20 (20 being the normal level cap). The first edition said "as long as they are close enough to touch", implying they would grab the wall to slow their fall to non-lethal speeds. [[Useless Useful Spell|The cheapest infinite use magic items in core does this without the need for the wall]].

* Stabbing the sail (referred to in-game as "Ride the Sail") is one of the tricks that the Rogers swordsman school teaches in ''[[Seventh7th Sea]]''.