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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 919258" data-attributes="member: 4910">The description of the scythe weapon in the PHB states that the stats there are for a scythe that's been balanced and weighted for use as a weapon.  It's not a basic agricultural tool, there.  That already is a war scythe. Weight isn't really a balancing factor when it comes to comparing combat stats vs other weapons.  In this instance, you have a scythe that ups its normally 2d4 damage dice to 2d6.  That level of upgrade puts it in the realm of Exotic Weapon Prof - as was pointed out, very similar to the Mercurial Greatsword.  Nope, large.  A scythe is a pole with a big long blade on the top.  You need both hands to control how it moves.  You know how there's those two little stick jutting out from the main pole?  Those are handles.  Not without the Monkey Grip feat.  It'd be like wielding a Halberd in one hand.. it could be done, but it would take some specialized training to do so.  Yep, they sure would - a medium size (eg sized down one category from Large to Medium) scythe.  A Halfling Scythe, similar to Halfling Nunchaku, etc.  Med size, martial weapon, 2d3/x4.  A medium size creature could swing one of those around without penalty, but really all your doing is swinging a really goofy-lookin pick at that point, that does slashing rather than piercing damage.</blockquote>