Y'see, I'm currently writing a story set in Iron Age Sardinia (which was then under Greek influence). But Sardinian, Greek or Roman, there's one thing that I know that every town would have - a tavern!
What better way to relax after a long day of farming, building, woodwork or killing barbarians than a few swifties.Of course, where-ever you have a large number of men (or a number of large men - take your pick) getting drunk, you have fist fights!
That's why any barman worth his salt used to keep a club under the counter, to deter the young thugs from smashing up his tavern. (This sort of thing happens everywhere in D&D, and I'm pretty sure that it happens - or used to happen - IRL too). The one thing that's tripping me up is that I can't remember what this club is actually called, cornsarn it.
Does anyone know?IIRC, it is (and always was) called a 'peacemaker' (for obvious reasons) - but now, if you google 'peacemaker', you'll get the Colt Single Action handgun. Other results for 'peacemaker' are even more absurd: a 1950s US bomber, or a mid-1980s-to-mid-2000s ICBM. Even a WW2-era (later to become a Korean-war era) machine gun was nicknamed "Peacemaker". Peaceful? I doubt it. "Piece-maker" seems more accurate.
So... does anyone know what those things are called?