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Originally Posted by Anthony
In principle sure (in fact, that's presumably what Sw/Imp on the scythe weapon is supposed to represent). Just unlikely to actually work. One of the issues with the way GURPS handles weapons is that there's no way of representing different weapons within the same basic class being harder to use than others, and even for weapons of different type, the E/A/H/VH skill distribution doesn't really have enough range.
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Some weapons, like the trident, have an inherent penalty to their use, requiring a Perk (Exotic Weapon Training, IIRC) to use at full skill. There could also be room for requiring success by a certain margin for full effect (otherwise reduce damage by some fraction, or even change damage type) for some weapons, to represent landing a proper edge-on hit being harder to manage with an axe (or, here, scythe) than landing a solid hit with a round mace. Other game systems could easily do something similar - perhaps in d20 a scythe needs to beat the enemy’s AC by 2 for full effect - even if they don’t normally use any sort of Margin of Success mechanics.