09-24-2009, 04:25 PM | #21 |
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Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?
Look at the link in Post #16, posted by DAlillama.
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09-24-2009, 04:30 PM | #22 | |
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Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?
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Everyone else in this discussion is talking about the original, unmodified, agricultural tool (emphasis on TOOL, not weaponized at all).
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09-24-2009, 04:42 PM | #23 | |
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09-24-2009, 05:01 PM | #24 | |
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Proving that many people didn't fight with unmodified agricultural scythes is rather irrelevant to the question, because he didn't ask about all the people who don't fight with unmodified agricultural scythes. DAlillama found a manuscript with two guys fighting with what look to be basically unmodified scythes. I don't know if it's a "fight book" as in a practical combat style guide, or if the commentary is discussing the crazy things drunken peasents get up to, or whatever, but it still seems to be relatively on topic.
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09-24-2009, 05:39 PM | #25 | |
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09-24-2009, 06:04 PM | #27 |
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09-24-2009, 06:09 PM | #28 | |
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You could say the same thing about numerous absurd weapons used in cinematic games/shows, such as the ubiquitous anime "wire of death" ("Obviously a reference to razor wire that got lost in translation!"), or the Spiked Chain ("Originally the war flail until artists messed it up!") but I think a more likely interpretation of all the above is that they meant exactly what they said, and that a scythe is a scythe, and that the D&D creators had no idea about your Warscythe, and if they did, they would have statted that weapon out like a spear/polearm. If you find that absurd, welcome to the world of D&D, home of elves, goblins and magic. |
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09-24-2009, 07:15 PM | #29 | |
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Now Gygax may or may not have know that the scythes used in battles were straightened. He did tend to have a thesaurus vocabulary rather than a dictionary vocabulary--for example look at his abuse of "phylactery". But I give the man the benefit of the doubt with respect to scythes. There was no illustration of a scythe that I remember in AD&D first edition, so I give the illustrators of early editions of D&D the benefit of the doubt too. However, the illustration on p. 100 of the D&D 3.0 PHB clearly shows an un-straightened scythe, which I believe is an error. Last edited by Agemegos; 09-24-2009 at 07:25 PM. |
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09-24-2009, 07:21 PM | #30 | |
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Furthermore "scythe" probably appears on the weapons tables of D&D and derivative games because of those things, because Gygax would have read about them while researching his historical wargames designs. In the context "role-playing in general", the illuminating answer to the question "how do you fight with a scythe" is "first, you get a smith to straighten it". |
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