Which odd weapon would you like to see represented more?

[onehunter]

Atlatl

 

[AliceMoonvale]

 

[AntonYBLaksmi]

The human body. ?

 

[Worthy39]

The Kusarigami is one of my favorite weapons, easily. Aside from that, proper shurikens are surprisingly uncommon, most people just portray ninja with kunai, and the ones who use shuriken for some reason just fight with swords, and that's ignoring how horribly real ninja were represented by most modern fiction altogether. Most real shurikens were left in the rain to rust. A more accurate ninja sword would also be fun to see, they were versatile, but often made from poor materials.

 

[FRWriter]

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Now that's just silly.

However, Quinna's fork weapon from FF9 is a decent alternative.

 

[Conqueror_Quack]

The kattar dagger

 

[L1aei]

Gas.

Don't care what chemical. Ignore the Hague Convention and Geneva Protocol. Let's see what odd weapon you mix up.

 

[HungrySheep]

Chakrams are pretty damn cool IMO.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Flamethrowers, whips, grenade launchers, we need more needle love. Needles sort of appear every few years then disappear.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Cone Rifle with Tactical Nuclear shells. Sure you can only fire it ONCE but still.... (a little safer than a thermonuclear hand grenade but not by much)

 

[Playerkartik]

I like Shang-Chi ring concept

 

[CharlesEBrown]

The Kusarigami is one of my favorite weapons, easily. Aside from that, proper shurikens are surprisingly uncommon, most people just portray ninja with kunai, and the ones who use shuriken for some reason just fight with swords, and that's ignoring how horribly real ninja were represented by most modern fiction altogether. Most real shurikens were left in the rain to rust. A more accurate ninja sword would also be fun to see, they were versatile, but often made from poor materials.

The scabbard of the "ninjato" was often more useful than the blade it held - it could be used as a club, as a place to conceal stuff, as a breathing tube. I was very disappointed when AD&D added ninja in (Oriental Adventures) but gave them obscure stuff from modern stories like the ability to walk through walls, instead of some of the abilities they actually were documented as using (like the ability to feign death, a skill at finding hidden passages and hiding places at least on par with the Elf ability to do the same, special gear for walking on water, the scabbard of the ninjato, and even the ability to feign death, in one alleged case, for days).
Japanese metal of that era was uniformly bad - but master swordsmiths learned how to fold it, but smoothly so it rarely looked like heavily folded Damascus steel, and strengthen it enough that it could stand up to swords made from better metals.

 

[Amrasil207]

That's the French Paratrooper or Soldier's thing right? If not French, then a Brit because the Brit have Wombat.

 

[Not_A_Fis]

May I suggest the humble Hussite warflail? It's like beating people with a stick, but the stick is cool. Or like beating them with nunchucks, but without beating yourself in the face at the same time.

 

[MFontana]

What era are we talking about?
And in what scope?
Full warfare?
Individual wielders / duels?
Era shapes technology, and from that, weapon availability.
Scope also shapes the scale of weapon use.

Individual-Based
Halberds
Pila (Singular: Pilum)
Bec de Corbin
War Scythe

Large-Scale
Scorpion Ballistae
Formations (Yes, I do mean troop battle formations)

 

[SnWrites]

Urmi blade the least represented weapon byt most leathal

 

[SRB]

I want to see an MC who uses a brick as a weapon of choice.

 

[ShrimpShady]

You beat me to the Macuahuitl

But I've never seen one of those giant Aboriginal wooden swords in fiction. Gnarly as hell

 

[AliceMoonvale]

The punt gun.

 

[c37]

My personal picks are war glaives, chakrams, and the humble macuahuitl. They're all pretty cool weapons in their own right. Pics for reference, in order:
War glaive:
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Chakrams:

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Macuahuitl:

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My bias toward Japanese weapons, especially katanas alike, is forcing me to say odachi. But other than that i would say Pata (gauntlet sword).

How did they even ride this?