[Low-Tech/Basic] Pick: War Club or Pickaxe

[mburr0003]

Originally Posted by Blind Mapmaker

You could call it Predictable.

Consider this yoinked.

However, looking at properly-sized adze blades, I am tempted to just call it a wash and treat those as axe blades too. Especially with a -2 skill penalty this feels too fine a distinction for GURPS.

I might not call it cutting damage though. The adze head on a mattock could be sharpened, but it usually won't be... it might be more proper to treat it as blunt with a +1 or +2 damage over a comparably heavy axe head.


In fact, I'm very likely to treat a mattock* as a two-handed maul with an impaling head opposite... and then add Predictable.


* That'd be the pick-adze combo. For an actual axe head, go with cutting, for the "tiller" option... hmmm... impaling, -i damage, +1 to hit? It's like a shorter, 'thicker' trident head. Should also be able to 'strike to disarm' without the penalty for being a fencing weapon.†

† And no, I'm not getting into my rant about how terrible I think that rule is. Nope.