Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170714130723/@comment-25936766-20170724171614

Phantomlink959 wrote: 1) A Great axe in the Pathfinder tabletop game weighs 12 pounds

2) Your average hang glider weighs about 50.

3) but I think we can look at Coco's purse and just assume it's mechanically viable. 1) And the Buster Sword in FF7 weights more than a hundred. Games are not a good example of your point, Phantom. Weapons in games can be heavier or lighter than they should be or seem to be.

2) Yes. And? Changes nothing.

For starters, the design. Like I told you, "wings of steel" won't help you glide down a mountain at all. A glider's wings are sailcloths, not simple chunks of metal like with an axe. Meanwhile, an axe whose blade is sailcloth will be useless.

The wing also needs to be light in other for the thing to glide in the first place. And even rigid wings need some flexibility, which it wouldn't have if you made the axe blades double as the wings.

This is a problem that you cannot solve just by moving parts of the blade around.

3) No. That's distribution of matter. The thing is heavy in both forms. And it's weight doesn't interfere much with it's performance as a weaponized purse and as a chaingun.

Different from this.