Uncommon weapons you want in your games

moonsweeper · May 16, 2019, 11:42:58 AM

Quote from: Antiquation!;1088183That's cool as shit! Can't believe I haven't seen one of these before!

One of my favorites...I homebrewed some 5e stats for my Primeval Thule campaign.

Kpinga/Mambele/Hunga-Munga

Dam 1d6 P
Thrown (r 10/30), special*
Weight = 3#
Cost = 4 GP

* Because of the shape and multiple points, this Lomari throwing knife/axe will catch and hook over shields. A proficient wielder ignores the target's shield bonus to AC.

Mordred Pendragon · May 16, 2019, 03:07:42 PM

Katanas, especially in World of Darkness games.

I unironically think they are cool and the fact that Goths and Punks tend to have a highly irrational hatred of them make me love them even more.

Bren · May 16, 2019, 03:36:58 PM

I'm fond of the odd neolithic throwing weapon like a bolas or darts and atlatl.

Kiero · May 16, 2019, 03:47:37 PM

Spears. Common in history and probably in the setting, but rare in the hands of PCs.

Chris24601 · May 16, 2019, 05:00:21 PM

Shields. They weren't just for passive defense.

Also the Bola, Lasso and other primitive weapons designed as much or more for snaring than damaging.

Omega · May 16, 2019, 06:34:52 PM

Quote from: tenbones;1088180I've always wanted to use one of those African throwing blades - the ones that look like flattened antlers right? They looks awesome!

Edit: Here you go
Amazing!

Yep, looked something like that.

soltakss · May 17, 2019, 02:29:31 PM

I went to a Battle of Bosworth Field reenactment and there was a huge bloke using an Irish Flail, basically a wrecking ball on a 10 foot chain. When he got going it was awesome, but you were waiting for someone to do a really good parry to stop it and then everyone jumped him, which is what happened.

Omega · May 17, 2019, 09:35:13 PM

While possibly not real. The Tathlum from the AD&D Deities & Demigods book allways interested me. Especially when we ended up making one from a fallen druid party member's head.

kosmos1214 · May 17, 2019, 10:57:27 PM

Well 1st and foremost I have a thing for chain whips.

Heres a clip to give you a peek at what they can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xeLG0Dg78E

One of the more unique is the Kusari-fundo I have only ever seen these once in anything one ps2 game thats it as far as I know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusari-fundo

It's pretty rare from what ive seen for any one to use a war mallet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ctsuchi

The Japanese also made big 2 handed flails some times I can't find any pictures though.

Quote from: Kiero;1088221Spears. Common in history and probably in the setting, but rare in the hands of PCs.

Depends heavily on the group in my experience.

Omega · May 18, 2019, 04:00:41 AM

Agreed. Spears saw alot of use with the various groups Ive played with or DMed. Some of my characters use them too.

rawma · May 18, 2019, 05:12:37 PM

Quote from: Michele;1088176With GURPS, melee weapons all fall in broad categories defined by generic terms. For a weapon to be truly different, it would need to have some special game mechanics. These might easily be secondary, and amount to a specialization with an advantage - but also some drawback.

The unusual weapons I usually want to see handled well are flexible weapons; entangling, generating substantially greater force in the right circumstances, but requiring unusual levels of skill and having some drawbacks. It's disappointing when a game classifies weapons in a very small number of categories without leaving room for mechanically distinct weapons.

Weapons chosen entirely for appearance and role-playing are always cool, though; one bard in our games used a sackbut to beat on enemies, claiming that the sound of the battered instrument reflected the sum of all her combats, with every adventure changing its musical qualities.

RPGPundit · May 26, 2019, 06:46:13 AM

In one of my Dark Albion campaigns I had one player (the same guy who later ran Bill the Elf) who was obsessed with using a Mancatcher whenever possible. He just thought it was hilarious.

Daztur · May 27, 2019, 10:50:45 AM

Quote from: Kiero;1088221Spears. Common in history and probably in the setting, but rare in the hands of PCs.

Had one PC hire a bunch of 0-level commoners to be back rank spear wielders. With my rules that let them pack spear wielders tight they were really effective from the back rank so other PCs took a hint from that.

Omega · May 27, 2019, 03:43:54 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1089508In one of my Dark Albion campaigns I had one player (the same guy who later ran Bill the Elf) who was obsessed with using a Mancatcher whenever possible. He just thought it was hilarious.

Had one of those players too after they had one used on them by Kua-toa and then they liberated one from the fishmen and used it thereafter.

tenbones · May 31, 2019, 01:19:24 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1089508In one of my Dark Albion campaigns I had one player (the same guy who later ran Bill the Elf) who was obsessed with using a Mancatcher whenever possible. He just thought it was hilarious.

The mancatcher is a running thing in my games. I'm convinced I can make it work.