How could one change the kusarigama so it fits a european medieval fantasy while keeping the mechanical functions of the weapon? What would it be even called?
How could one change the kusarigama so it fits a european medieval fantasy while keeping the mechanical functions of the weapon?
>some farmer went nuts and invented a weapon: the hook flail
here's your justification bro
And it's not like Europeans didn't have sickles and use them either as an emergency weapon.
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>Master Wayne, I really don't think this... four channel... is a productive use of your time.
>I don't make these posts because I enjoy them, Alfred. Only the twisted, vile, and insane of Gotham make threads like this, and the worst reply to them. I've painstakingly studied how to make the lowest quality threads I can. The Joker will show up here eventually, we just have to be patient.
>...
I am glad to see batman posting returning with such a strong showing
>”master wayne, why are you in the suit at home?”
It’s scenes like these that really hit home the message that Batman is just as fricking batshit crazy as the Joker
Eh, Batman is a weirdo but he's nowhere near the Joker's level of derangement. The whole point of The Killing Joke is that the Joker's thesis is fundamentally wrong.
He's in the bat cave in that image, so presumably he's doing Batman shit and going to go out at some point in the foreseeable future.
Pic related might be for you.
I thought Alfred handles the logistics.
They'd call it a "Schnappsidee".
>that pic
lol
>this ----'s not a landschnekt his name is Clarence!
Don't you risk killing yourself every time it swings with that design?
It's a sickle with a chain attached. Call it a chain sickle? It'll probably fit in better if sickles and chains with a weight at the end are both not grossly rare weapons amongst those who can't get swords or other proper stuff.
The length of the chain is such that unless you're actively trying to get the weight up to speed the movements of the sickle is going to get lost in the slack. Sometimes you outright wield the sickle with one hand and the chain part with the other. https://youtu.be/VDUT_cQEryI?feature=shared&t=31
>Sometimes
You mean always. Swinging the weight and chain via the sickle would make it exponentially harder to use effectively, and it isn't exactly a simple weapon as it is.
This is the whole point of the weapon though, that you can use the two sets with one-hand. Though both uses were done in practice.
Do you ever consider that the asians just made moronic weapons out of scrap just to troll stupid westerners?
"Yeah Bro, my ancestors definitely used this in the Dragon Wars! Yep, I'm the descendant of an ancient Ninja Clan that used these in a long lost martial art, honest! It's yours for 200 dollars!"
I do and I don't care. It looks cool.
Wasn't the kusarigama one the weapons invented because peasants weren't allowed to have swords?
It was a real thing.
That's what the junk salesman told the archeologists.
Kusarigama were invented because chains & sickles were popular weapons independently and then some random samurai thought "what if I combined them together?"
I recently played a dwarf monk with a kusarigama made out of a handaxe, some chain and a mjölner-style carpentry hammer.
A bullwhip.
Sure it doesn't have the hook but if you want 'long thing you hold one end of that'll cut you up something fierce' then that's a whip. Whips in fiction also do the 'wrap around someone to trip them up' thing that you want..
I had an idea for a Western/Christian take on this.
A weapon that has a battle aspergillum used as a mace, attached by a long/magic chain to an incense burner used like a flail.
Basically like the chain whip from castlevania, but with a melee weapon attached instead of just a handle
>Enemy raid on your village
>Oh no, he broke the scythe on half
>Throw the broken part on him and cut his leg while he's distracted
>It worked?!
>Throwing things works + more enemies + Klaus's chain nearby...
>By the wings of Raphael! I killed another because he didn't have any idea how to react to me!
>Two weeks later...
>Now the others are copying me
>Smithy the Smith is making more of them
>The villagers spread the tale around
>Half the county thinks I'm a warrior blessed by the archangels
>I have slain seventeen soldiers and an armored dog. A dog?
I like it, but make it a sickle instead. Actual scythes have the blade at a perpendicular angle, curved inwards, and thus would make completely ineffective throwing weapons.
The sacred pasta! We are blessed.
>how do we change the idea of farmers using a common tool as a weapon in a peasant rebellion to fit european medieval fantasy
Do we really need to?
That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Hand Sickle" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Kusarigama deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.
I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine kusarigama in Japan for 2,400,000 Yen (that's about $20,000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid steel with my kusarigama.
Japanese smiths spend years working on a single kusarigama and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest farming equipment known to mankind.
Kusarigamas are thrice as sharp as European sickles and thrice as hard for that matter too. Anything a combine tractor can cut through, a kusarigama can cut through better. I'm pretty sure a kusarigama could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple vertical slash.
Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering Japan? That's right, they were too scared to fight the secretive Ninja and their hand tools of domination. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the kusarigamas first because their farming power was feared and respected.
So what am I saying? Kusarigamas are simply the best weapon that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the d20 system. Here is the stat block I propose for Kusarigamas:
(One-Handed Exotic Weapon) Dexterity check or be bound in place by chains Counts as Masterwork
(Two-Handed Exotic Weapon) 2d10 Damage 17-20 x4 Crit +5 to hit and damage Counts as Masterwork
Now that seems a lot more representative of the rice-cutting power of Kusarigamas in real life, don't you think?
tl;dr = Kusarigamas need to do more damage in d20, see my new stat block.
it should do no more than 1d7 damage.
>farming scythe on a chain
>Sickle on a cow chain
I literally allowed this in a Witcher campaign circa '12.
It's called a Karna, and Monks in DnD use them. They help you in tripping.
>Karna
Kama*
That settles it OP. Call them Karnas. Typo names are the best names.
Its a slaughterhouse tool, the weight is for cracking the skull to stun them before cutting their throat. The chain is for tangling up the legs of the livestock so they can't flee when they smell death and then hoisting them up for easy butchery after the deed is done. Every farmer has one.
>How could one change the kusarigama so it fits a european medieval fantasy while keeping the mechanical functions of the weapon?
Fruit harvesting from tree with moving limbs that really doesn't want you to harvest the fruit. Have to wrap the limb with the chains then drag it down to cut.
There are other ways it cold be done but it'll do for your purposes.
name it german or something.
kettensichel or something