Khopesh

[lord_banus]

No, it's not. A kama is alot like a scaled down scythe, however. Some pictures.

Actually there are a few variants in the world of Sickles. The curved question mark variety and the mini-scythe are both valid, in fact I have the small scythe variety at home that was an actual farm implement.

 

[Wolffenjugend]

Of course, a real scythe's handle looks nothing like that depicted above. A real scythe has a curved shaft with a handle and the blade is at an angle from the blade.

 

[Moulin Rogue]

Monkey God's From Stone To Steel has the Bronze Kopesh as 1d6 18-20/x2 slashing with no special abilities, citing the chopping blade as closer to an axe than a sword. The illustration on p.45 has the kopesh more like a "lightning bolt" shape than a question mark.

 

[Matafuego]

[IMAGEL]http://home.naver.net/kojook/pictures/west/khopesh.jpg[/IMAGEL]

 

[Bendris Noulg]

That be it.

 

[William Ronald]

I also seem to recall seeing similar looking swords from much later periods in sub-Saharan Africa. Personally, I tend to agree with Capellan and like the Testament version for game play reasons. Of course, the other variants could exist in a campaign and be used to represent similar weapons.

 

[Dirigible]

That is one pig-ugly sword. I'd never wield that in combat.

The other barbarians would laugh at me...

 

[Darklone]

Something that D&D forgot when they speak about scythes in battle... the blade was straightened to point ahead. Similar for sickles used in war.

 

[Umbran]

A real scythe has a curved shaft with a handle and the blade is at an angle from the blade.

And this is why it has that nasty crit - anything that can be at an angle from itself contains some very nasty spacial folding that you don't want imbedded in your guts

 

[taichara]

Jya.

There were two khopesh (or khepesh) found in the tomb of Tutankhamen, according to Nicholas Reeves' The Complete Tutankhamen; length measurements were given for them, which may help out a little (I hope )

One was adult scaled, the cutting edge possibly more suited to crushing, and its overall dimensions being 23-and-a-half inches in length. The second was designed for a child, being 16 inches in length; it also had a "finely edged cutting blade".
No information given on weight, though the illos make these look like oddly dainty weapons (especially the smaller one).

I have no idea how they would handle, so to speak, but comparing them to longswords or broadswords (although that's a variant that race-specific in AU, yes?) seems a little off to me, proportion-wise...


Tai