What are the most unusual, weird, obscure and interesting weapons you've seen in games or books or IRL?
Also your ideas of new and strange weapon types are welcome.
(i mostly mean fantasy, but sci-fi stuff like yondu's arrow is fine too)
Strange and Original Weapons Thread
Daniel Peterson
Dylan Jenkins
I was considering starting such a thread for my upcoming Conan game
Anthony Wilson
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Adam Hughes
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Tyler Foster
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Brandon Ortiz
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Carter Ramirez
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Luis Parker
> African Fantasy Tips
pastebin.com
I found some new stuff to show
Julian Martinez
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Jose Rodriguez
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Joshua Nelson
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Anthony Jackson
>Once upon a time, some blacksmith stepped back from his forge, looked at this blade and said "this is totaly absolutely a good idea"
Julian Wood
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Ryder Anderson
It was meant for this one. Oh well, it qualifies for both.
Easton Anderson
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Landon Foster
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Jordan White
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Matthew Cruz
Not real but I always liked it.
Gabriel Williams
mm, Quake
Matthew Mitchell
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Ethan Gutierrez
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Blake Gray
seems a pain in the ass to reload, but probably good against monsters, where single bolt is like a mosquito bite
Grayson Martin
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Cameron Martinez
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Ethan Howard
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Robert Sullivan
Is it me or captcha works like shit these past few days?
Charles Hill
Failing to contact and repeating th
Benjamin Reed
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Jason Myers
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Eli Sullivan
We're hiveminding now
Bentley Long
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Anthony Wright
Jung's sinchronicity is a wondrous thing.
Jayden Perry
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Grayson Flores
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Jacob Lewis
>currency knife
I learned something today.
Christian Brooks
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Wyatt Hughes
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Jacob Gutierrez
>Hey, is this a gladius?
>Gladius? GLADIUS? THIS! IS! SPATHA!
Chase Bennett
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Blake Adams
I'm shedding some light on those wacky african designs. A bunch of them are like and : money.
Logan Roberts
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Charles Bailey
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Jaxon Flores
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Ryder Peterson
That thing seems to me so stupidly dangerous i had to find you a video.
Alexander Phillips
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Luis Perez
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Kevin Bell
>so stupidly dangerous
why? it's just a longer katar
Andrew Cox
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Cameron Gomez
And i'm done, gentlemen, have a good day.
Jeremiah Martin
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Aaron Green
The urumi, I meant
Evan Martin
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Jacob Rivera
Anyone got any good exotic polearms?
Cooper Thompson
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Robert Diaz
ah, makes sense
Jack Flores
tvtropes.org
shit, apparently yoyos started as a weapon...
Asher Roberts
How exotic?
Elijah Cruz
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Carter Flores
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Joshua Russell
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Jackson Ross
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Grayson Richardson
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Eli Gonzalez
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Justin White
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Nathaniel Lee
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Gavin Flores
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Nolan Edwards
This looks beautiful. How effective was it?
Ethan Garcia
Not him, but as it looks pretty much a falcata, very.
Kevin Cruz
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Brody Clark
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Zachary Nguyen
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Tyler Jenkins
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Parker Davis
Hard to say. They seem to have been quite common for a decent while, which may suggest that they worked rather well, but it could just be that carrying one was more a matter of fashion than practicality for many.
Some of the yataghans I've handled sometimes have very wide grips, which could point towards them being more for show, but plenty of others have entirely reasonably grips, and their construction otherwise usually seems sane and sound enough. Overall my guess is that they perform about as well as you'd expect from a very alrge knife/short sword. Just adjust your fighting style to account for the lack of a guard.
Angel Ward
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Cameron Morgan
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Tyler Hughes
this formation shall be known as "makbeth's doom"
Jacob Hughes
Don't get it.
Mason Diaz
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Dylan Walker
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Oliver Martin
Makbeth was told that he won't die until a forest itself attacks his castle
what i'm saying, this formation looks like a fucking forest
Cooper Lee
aren't these just backscratchers?
Adam Howard
"Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are.
Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him."
Dominic Collins
Oh, ok, I hadn't ever read Macbeth. Just Othelo, and in portuguese at the time. Perhaps I'll apreciate it more nowadays, reading in english.
Liam Mitchell
For an old boar perhaps, but I think I'd prefer something a bit less harsh against my skin.
On the other hand, these may not be the most effective of weapons, sometimes the goal is rather to, say, look exotic and intriguing to the general public during demonstrations.
Parker Fisher
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Jeremiah Murphy
I'm honestly disappointed there's a ridiculously minimal amount of fiction that has someone using the funky shaped African throwing knives.
Zachary Edwards
at first glance I thought those weren't arms, but chicken's belly. and the daggers were supposed to be its feet
Joseph Hill
We even have similar things in Europe, "hurlbats".
Bentley Baker
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Andrew Scott
that inscriptions claims it's supposed to be a Khajiit Bard
Easton Anderson
That makes two of us. You might have luck searching for the "sword and soul" genre.
afrofantasy.net
Jack Diaz
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Grayson Adams
If i remember properly the insriptions means something among the line of "King Something forged and engraved this blade himself for his use"
Levi Rogers
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Jordan Gray
khopesh is such a sexy weapon
Jaxson Miller
yeah that seems like something good to hand to the fighter or paladin, someone big and burly to fire one burst before dropping it and closing to melee
Nicholas Thompson
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Ryan Russell
INdeed. I remember the guys from the extras of the Gadiator VHS at the time, saying that he didn't manage to draw a concept of it and had to go strait to the prototype phase on his hunch that it could work.
Austin Reyes
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Zachary Robinson
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