D&D 5E Have you ever seen these weapons used regularly by PC's in a D&D 5e game?

Select any that apply:

  • Club (w/o Shillelagh)

    Votes: 15 12.4%

  • Greatclub (w/o Shillelagh)

    Votes: 14 11.6%

  • Light Hammer

    Votes: 19 15.7%

  • Sickle

    Votes: 14 11.6%

  • Dart

    Votes: 22 18.2%

  • Sling

    Votes: 33 27.3%

  • Greataxe

    Votes: 98 81.0%

  • Lance

    Votes: 18 14.9%

  • Scimitar

    Votes: 74 61.2%

  • Trident

    Votes: 18 14.9%

  • War Pick

    Votes: 17 14.0%

  • Whip

    Votes: 35 28.9%

  • Flail

    Votes: 21 17.4%

  • Halberd

    Votes: 45 37.2%

  • Blowgun

    Votes: 5 4.1%

  • Net

    Votes: 14 11.6%

  • Glaive

    Votes: 51 42.1%

  • Pike

    Votes: 7 5.8%
It depends on the player.

Some players use certain weapons regularly.

So I have probably seen more blowgun, net, and whip than others.

Maybe I have never seen a "dart" in play - the one that is a hand-thrown arrow?

I assume "flail" includes nunchaku, so yeah.

As a DM, I might want to see more trident, pike, and lance, but I dont think I have seen a player use these.
 

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Stormonu said:
Trident got use in my recent campaign, due to the inclusion of Wave in the player's backstory and adventures.

BTW, I made tridents deal 2d4 damage (1-3 prongs hitting, dealing ~1d3 each essentially), with it being versatile (3d4).
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That’ll certainly get people to use tridents. That would seem to make it the strongest martial melee weapon in the game.
 

Willie the Duck said:
Personally, I think trident should be rolled up into one-handable spears (and then they systematically decide what they want to do with spears in general*).
*1h spear with PAM and shield is a way to make what IRL was a perfectly good military weapon viable for a martial character to regularly use, but it seems like the most convoluted and unsatisfactory way of doing it.
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Willie the Duck said:
I think that falls into what was meant by not a pc weapon -- not one you choose for your character when equipping yourself (once the various cost differences between the weapons becomes trivial), much less making a build around. All weapons and armor work well for the role of things you use when nothing else is available (same reason for padded armor and scale mail and such).
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Eh, this would also knock out unexpected found PC magic weapons.

My valor bard picked up a magic trident in an adventure and started using it as his chosen weapon. Without having found it I would have stuck with my axe.
 

Yaarel said:
It depends on the player.

Some players use certain weapons regularly.

So I have probably seen more blowgun, net, and whip than others.
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Net and whip I can see niches for, but I can’t imagine any reason to use a blowgun. It’s just the worst ranged weapon in every conceivable way.
Yaarel said:
Maybe I have never seen a "dart" in play - the one that is hand-thrown arrow?
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Not surprising, as functionally just a dagger you can’t dual-wield with.
Yaarel said:
As a DM, I might want to see more trident, pike, and lance, but I dont think I have seen a player use these.
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I’ve seen some lance use - it’s an obscure niche, but a viable one.
 

Charlaquin said:
Net and whip I can see niches for, but I can’t imagine any reason to use a blowgun. It’s just the worst ranged weapon in every conceivable way.
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Blowgun is for poison.

Both the Poisoners tool set and the Medicine skill can make poison, such as from certain plants or animals.
 

As a DM I used more than I've seen with PCs.

I've used a dart throwing ranger NPC going for a Bullseye vibe (the dice were decidedly against his attack rolls in the actual combat unfortunately).
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I've used a net throwing spider construct. And a net shooting scientific specimen retriever drone.

I've had a wasteland ghoul gang member with a cobbled together war pick.

I've used a ghoul with a glaive and reskinned it to be a pole saw.

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James Gasik said:
Sorry, re-reading your post, it felt like you were saying something else. Personally, d12's hate me, every time I roll one, I tend to get a result of 5 or less. This isn't hyperbole either, you should have seen what happened whenever I tried to use my Yuan Ti's poison spray.

Once, in PF1e, I foolishly played a character using a Lucerne Hammer, which did 1d12 damage. From level 1-8, if I rolled a 7 on a d12, I counted myself lucky.
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Oh man…that would truly suck playing my game, which uses a d12 Action Die and a pool of d6 Rank Dice for action resolution.
 

Charlaquin said:
Net and whip I can see niches for, but I can’t imagine any reason to use a blowgun. It’s just the worst ranged weapon in every conceivable way.

Not surprising, as functionally just a dagger you can’t dual-wield with.

I’ve seen some lance use - it’s an obscure niche, but a viable one.
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I had a halfling Paladin with a Lance. It was fun.
 


My halfling monk used a sling and never looked back. One handed ranged weapon is nice. He would have probably even become a kensai for improved damage while using the sling.
 

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