D&D 5E (2014) Chainsword update?

[tetrasodium]

I'd eberron's wide magic & take a page from our diamond drill bits/diamond cutters that are basically normal bits/wheels covered in diamond dust. Well this thing is a sword with an edge covered in a modified array of whirling force shards similar to the much larger ones employed by kitchen gadgets or the spell cloud of daggers

 

[driskelljbm]

No maybe about it. Chainsword first appeared in Warhammer 40K, published 1987. Encyclopaedia Magica was published in 1994.

Both wrong. First appeared in Doctor Who as the weapon of Abslom Daak 1980. Predates 40k by seven years.

 

[driskelljbm]

Both wrong. First appeared in Doctor Who as the weapon of Abslom Daak 1980. Predates 40k by seven years.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Both wrong. First appeared in Doctor Who as the weapon of Abslom Daak 1980. Predates 40k by seven years.

I read that comic! It was tapping into the same UK kaos-spikybits vibe that was around at the time. I suspect there where chainswords in 2000AD around the same time. I remember playing a Games Workshop card game which a chainsword weapon at school, and I left school in 1986. So it can't have bean Chainsaw Warrior, which was released in 1987. Quite possibly from White Dwarf? Chainswords where all over White Dwarf in the 1980s.

Whatever, chainswords where not a D&D invention.

 

[dave2008]

I read that comic! It was tapping into the same UK kaos-spikybits vibe that was around at the time. I suspect there where chainswords in 2000AD around the same time. I remember playing a Games Workshop card game which a chainsword weapon at school, and I left school in 1986. So it can't have bean Chainsaw Warrior, which was released in 1987. Quite possibly from White Dwarf? Chainswords where all over White Dwarf in the 1980s.

Whatever, chainswords where not a D&D invention.

well the chainsaw was around a good bit before the 1980s!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

well the chainsaw was around a good bit before the 1980s!

Absolm Daak, as @driskelljbm states, had a chainsword - a sword designed to cut through dalek armour. It certainly might be the earliest example of something of the kind that was designed to be a weapon, rather than a tool used as an improvised weapon.

 

[Umbran]

Absolm Daak, as @driskelljbm states, had a chainsword - a sword designed to cut through dalek armour. It certainly might be the earliest example of something of the kind that was designed to be a weapon, rather than a tool used as an improvised weapon.

I think the point is more that you don't get much credit for being first with an idea that's bleedingly obvious.

 

[NotAYakk]

I think the point is more that you don't get much credit for being first with an idea that's bleedingly obvious.

I think the innovation comes from the spray, not the bleeding.