Uncommon Weapons Use

[X-ray Crossbow]

Tridents, glaives, ranseurs, picks, light hammers, guisarme, dire flail/other flails, spiked gauntlets, sickle, falchion, warhammer.

What kind of flavor do these weapons evoke to you?

These are uncommon weapons to be used...what kind of justifications or reasons have you found for characters to use these weapons?

What about other odd two-weapon combinations ( and remember you can use shields as weapons) can you figure out reasons for?

 

[Kamard]

Tridents, glaives, ranseurs, picks, light hammers, guisarme, dire flail/other flails, spiked gauntlets, sickle, falchion, warhammer.

What kind of flavor do these weapons evoke to you?

These are uncommon weapons to be used...what kind of justifications or reasons have you found for characters to use these weapons?

What about other odd two-weapon combinations ( and remember you can use shields as weapons) can you figure out reasons for?

Tridents: Followers of a sea god, sea fishermen.
glaives, ranseurs. guisarmes: Polearms are used by peasants.

picks: Dwarves. People who want to poke through armour. Peasant militias.

light hammers, warhammers: Peasants or those who don't want to draw blood. Conversely, both are good for making armour decidedly less roomy.

dire flail/other flails: Used by people who want to hit themselves in the head, reducing it to a fine red mist.

spiked gauntlets: People who want to look bad while still remaining inefficient.

sickle: Peasant militias, death god followers, harvest god followers.

falchion: A big nasty sword used by people who have few attacks per round but want to make an impression.

 

[Grim]

and dont forget spiked chains! the most usefull weapon ever. reach and regular, and disarms well!

For me, the only character who ever used one was a true neutral half-elf fighter who enjoyed the philisophical aspects of the rigid yet fluid chain. Very true-neutralish

 

[s/LaSH]

Tridents I've seen. In fact, in the campaign I'm running the mage uses one. It's a racial proficiency...

And I'm going to try out the spiked chain fairly soon, too, but haven't got around to it yet.

As far as picks and hammers go, I think they're a cultural thing of gnomes and dwarves. Flails are very nasty weapons, and I'd see them in the hands of gnolls or dark knights; if you can avoid your own cranium, they're excellent for stopping conversation permanently and messily. Polearms are normally seen in the hands of guards in my world, for some reason; I can't think why, except for the fact that you can use them like a staff to block someone's access to a chamber. (Which doesn't seem to be in the rules... anyone got any ideas about that?)

 

[Sanackranib]

weapon combos

I have always liked the rapier/whip combo. I think the next time I actually get to play I am going to play a fighter/lasher and work this combo as a swashbuckler (but I'm not gona take that PrC)

 

[avatar of blood]

oh god the memories

well to set the mood, we were in a bar and there was a troll trying to kill us, because someone insulted her.
So it was attacking us, and we had it flanked and I wanted something firiery to kill it, so i grabbed a shovel and scooped out some hot coals and sneak attacked her with it, i did araound thirty points of damage and managed to drop her

hahaha
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[RangerWickett]

Re: weapon combos

I have always liked the rapier/whip combo. I think the next time I actually get to play I am going to play a fighter/lasher and work this combo as a swashbuckler (but I'm not gona take that PrC)

Were you thinking of something like this? Read the attachment.

 

[RangerWickett]

Double post.

 

[Sanackranib]

whip & dager

Nah, I wasn't gonna take dualist and hadn't planed on epic level feats or energy weeapons. I was gonna go for a "swashbuckler" feel more along the lines of 'Zoro"

 

[candidus_cogitens]

My understanding was that historically speaking polearms were infantry weapons, not peasant weapons ... although they evolved from simple agricultural and hunting implements.

Ranseurs are basically spears. Halberds are an evolved form of axe. A glaive is either a knife or a scythe (I can't recall) on a stick. And guisarms are pruning hooks.

But, on the other hand, if you treat them as strictly infantry weapons, then only fighters would use them. What about barbarians--don't they ever use reach weapons? I'm planning to put a ranseur in the hands of my barbarian, and see if it has a good feel. I still have some reservations about it.