Choose your weapon!

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The Black Staff carried by Wizard McCoy

 

[Tom Strickland]

When I read this, I was hoping to see this...or this...

Nice! I had definitely considered adding the M41A "Pulse Rifle" (Aliens) previously (and the Lawgiver, etc.) but ending up selecting only a couple dozen of the most-iconic-to-me weapons from among the fantastic plethora in the gamut from "primitive" to futuristic--both magical and "mundane".

[For instance, I had also considered referencing some exotically creative weapons from this list as referenced by Morris' news page: "Here's a (systemless) list of 8 old-school weapons for your fantasy campaign." However, the numerous gaps in my small(ish) list of alternates-to-my-current-favorite provide ample opportunities for others' "lists".]

 

[Mallus]

If we're talking named weapons, then it's got to be Elric's Stormbringer. Runners up: Severian's Terminus Est and a two-way tie for third with Morrolan's Blackwand & Anomander Rake's Dragnipur.

If we're talking types of weapons, then it's the ever-versatile phaser. Runners up: the Morganti Great Weapons, and, hmmm, yeah, I'm done nerding out.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Oh yes, Morganti Great weapons. Yessss, wee like themz. Vlad would agree.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

I LOVE Fallout New Vegas, so yeah the Ranger Sequoia is awesome
As is "Lucky", the "Mysterious Magnum" (a gun that plays a tune when you draw it cannot be beat lol), my fave though is A Light In Shining Darkness the custom Colt .45 Commander Joshua Graham has, mods that let you use a silencer with that and oh yeah!
Also, the game has the Blade Runner pistol
Lever action 20 guage is one of my faves as well

Glaive from Krull, hell yes! Adore that film and still awesome weapon



"SNAGA the Sender", Druss the Axeman's axe, mmm....



In SKyrim, fellow made VERY cool mod adding custom designs to the Skyforge weapons, and the Ebony dagger version is gorgeous!


Real life, Puma Bowie Knife, not one of the crazy outlandish things, high quality, small awesome tool.

De Lisle Carbine, sneakiest damn gun ever invented, lol British totally silent carbine designed to take out Axis sentries etc during WW2.

Read a scifi novel where, because of suicidal spree killers, the cops carried specially adapted guns, like ultra rapid firing .22s but this is the future, and they bullets are loaded with advanced explosive tips...talk about gibbage!


Lawgiver, oh another classic ever since way back early when 2000AD started Dredd used Ricochet bullets to take out several guys in a lift....oh hell yeah!



BFG 9000 is of course, iconic, but real men did it all with the shotgun

Gladius, most efficient killing weapon ever designed.

and hey, one of my own designs Drow cutlass!

 

[Mishihari Lord]

I like the pudao. The aesthetics really appeal to me for some reason and it seems like a very practical weapon.


The nanowire from Johnny Mnemonic was pretty cool too.

 

[Hand of Evil]

There can only be one -- help create the Katana in every campaign

 

[MarkB]

(and the Lawgiver, etc.)

If I were going for a weapon from the 2000AD comics, the Lawgiver is up there, but I think it might be edged out by Johnny Alpha's variable-cartridge blaster from Strontium Dogs.

"Number 4 cartridge!"

Also, one which I'd forgotten about is Dak'kon's karach blade from Planescape: Torment, crafted of pure chaos-matter and psychically linked to its owner so that it is shaped by his conscious and unconscious thoughts.

 

[Tom Strickland]

...Dak'kon's karach blade from Planescape: Torment, crafted of pure chaos-matter and psychically linked to its owner so that it is shaped by his conscious and unconscious thoughts.

That reminds me of the Silver Sword of Gith in Neverwinter Nights 2 which is reassembled from quested-for shards. Each shard provides a benefit. The final weapon--in game mechanics terms--is usable by any class regardless of proficiency, so I was pleased to wield the assembled "sword" as a wizard!

And the theme of questing-for-pieces reminds me of the Rod of Seven Parts, or (a favorite) the "three segments of (Det Morson's) magical staff" from Roger Zelazny's Changeling.

“What of the magician’s rod? Is it not dangerous?” he asked.

Mor nodded, bent slowly and retrieved it from where it had fallen. He began to twist and tug at it, muttering the while.

“Yes,” he finally said, succeeding in separating it into three sections. “It cannot be destroyed, but if I were to banish each segment to a point of the great Magical Triangle of Int, it may be that it will never be reclaimed. It would certainly be difficult.”

* * * * *

It was of a light, heavily tarnished metal—possibly an alloy of some sort; and if so, far too technologically sophisticated for anything he had seen here...and this seemed old, felt old, as his special sense measured things. It was about eight inches long and opened at one end, presumably to accommodate the succeeding section; its other end was a simple hemisphere, possibly of a different metal. About the shaft itself was chased a pattern of stylized flames within which a rich variety of demons danced and engaged in peculiar acts.

He raised it—it seemed that it might be some sort of magical battery, or transformer...


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[Silverblade The Ench]

MarkB
damn, I forgot that Loved Johnny Alpha's crazy weapons, like the electronux and best of all, time bomb!

Tom Strickland
Intro to Neverwinter Nights 2 is still so awesome!


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