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Used to be, haven't done it for a while, I've dabbled (spent a year or so, longer for some things), doing a lot of things, jitsu, judo, kung fu, reenactment, boxing etc etc. Doing this sort of thing makes you realise the limitation weapons can have, and also the limitations the human body can have.

As for there being bigger things than t-rex's there may be, but whilst the t-rexs mouth does more damage than a club, it makes more sense to bite the thing.

Just because we are the only apparent sapient creature at the moment doesn't mean others have been as worthless. Judging from levels of sophistication in apes, and a few others, there's a good chance that those same levels of intelligence were reached by the dinosaurs, they were around a lot longer than we were. Predators tend to be more intelligent than pure herbivores. Humans are around 5 times weaker than chimps. We aren't as strong, because we don't need to be. However, there's no reason to think that perhaps ancient creatures had very effective claws, able to rip things apart. Tools could still be developed for other reasons, but there'd be less need for claws.

I mean hell, even humans, when well trained, could give an armed opponent a run for their money, imagine a species that still had effective claws, thicker bones, more power? A club would improve things yes, but by no means render natural abilities obsolete.

EDIT - I'm not arguing against things that I don't know about in the game, I'm arguing against points being made by people suggesting weapons make natural abilities obsolete. My original question is a valid one, and apparently one that people don't know the answer to, that's fine, so now we're having a conversation.