Gaming Sources- Weapon Names
One of the biggest problems I have when planning roleplaying games is coming up with all the names...for people, places, artifacts, etc.. One of the websites I regularly check has posted this list of all the swords and magical equipment from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. It has some obscure magical weapons in it. There are several from fantasy works, like names from the Silmarrion and Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion novels and plenty of magic weapons based on real-world myths/legends like the Claimh Solais (the Celtic "sword of light" that was, according to some versions, wielded by Nuadha) and the Joyeusu (Charlemagne's sword). I'll probably be using this page as a reference for both the Buffy game (the real world/mythic weapon names) and the Connemara game (for the made-up names that sound cool).