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It’s not about how hard you pull as much as how carefully you can aim, at least that’s how I justify it in game.
Shortswords are a finesse weapon, which are the swords which can benefit from dexterity in real life as well as in game. Longswords are heavy and quite difficult to swing, so their use is based on strength.
Longswords aren’t difficult to swing and weigh around 1kg. Large two handed swords weigh around 2.5 - 3kg, and those are the giant ones you see really buff knights wield in movies.
RPGs don’t make sense. Leather armor didn’t really exist / wasn’t widely used. A dude in full steel armor isn’t almost immobile / doesn’t become a turtle when pushed over. It’s all game mechanics someone thought up.
