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Old 09-23-2009, 10:21 PM   #3
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Default Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?

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Originally Posted by Mailanka View Post
Awesomely, preferably with a black, tattered cloak fluttering around you on a fierce wind, with swift attacks that leave ominous, silvery-or-red-or-black trails of gothic goodness behind them.

I don't think the inclusion of a scythe was ever meant to be, in anyway, realistic, but rather, stylistic.

(I'd imagine you'd fight with it something like a two-handed axe or a really awkward glaive. Mind you, there are some martial arts based on scythes, but those are vastly more practical one-handed little things)
Pretty much this. I think that main reason for their inclusion is that Death and minions thereof often have them, and some players will whine if there isn't a rule for how fast they can kill you. Looking at the scythe I've got, if I had to hurt someone with it i think that I'd go for a hamstringing/leg crippling shot, then drop the thing and run for it.
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