Scythes

[Ares Tyr]

Why do people act like scythes are weapons as opposed to harvesting tools?

At your most badass while holding a scythe you look like a rather annoyed farmer who could not find a shotgun or pitchfork.

Me I personally blame those guys who decided to personify death as a skeleton in robes with a scythe.

It's because Death "harvests souls". So yeah, it's pretty much what Doctor said the first time.

I don't see why a Scythe couldn't be used as a weapon, but its usually used in gaming and entertainment as a way of making the character embody evil and death.

 

[crepesack]

the scythe is a metaphor for the grim reaper reeping the wheat (souls) and hell it is a menacing looking implement

 

[MightyMoose]

Why do people act like scythes are weapons as opposed to harvesting tools?

At your most badass while holding a scythe you look like a rather annoyed farmer who could not find a shotgun or pitchfork.

Me I personally blame those guys who decided to personify death as a skeleton in robes with a scythe.

The reason being that Death harvests the life which has reached it's peak. See the connection there?

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythe
Also mentions war scythes.

War scythes are much cooler than normal scythes. Shorten the stick (hilt?) and it'd be like a mega-sword, very cool weapon.

 

[M0rp43vs]

Psychological effect. You look like death and (if your like the poster of the thread) are carrying a weird weapon, the guy gets intimidated and thrown off. Add to that it's swing arc, it's ability to strike from awkward directions(as was said multiple times already), plus(like the bo staff) the stick can do some damage if the blade misses and it is a pretty useful weapon if(like almost any other weapon) you know what the hell your doing.

 

[Hellbent278]

tbh if you saw a farmer with a scythe nowadays you would think hes totally out of date

 

[The_Prophet]

Imagery. The scythe has connotations with Death. Thus a person using a scythe has connotations with death. It's a cheap way of making a character look dangerous and gothy.

i agree

 

[Stalington]

Well, as the guy who probably caused OP to make this thread with my mention of dual-wielding scythes in the dnd thread

That just doesn't make sense. You can't dual wield a scythe, or even a war scythe.

I've seen people dual-wield spears, whos to say you cant dual-wield other pole-arms? Besides, the only thing more badass then a scythe......is TWO!

 

[LewsTherin]

The war scythe be looking a bit like a Lochaber with a bit more curve. I'm thinking it would be used like one, or a billhook. Anyway, if you see someone coming at you with a scythe, you're gonna run.

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

Using a farming style Scythe as a weapon is ridiculous, the bent shape of the blade and shaft makes it awkward to swing when not on the ground, not to mention if they block your attack they are between you and the blade of the scyth leaving you wide open.

 

[The Sorrow]

The scythe is damn scary, and I suppose there would be some psychological damage to your opponent. It may not be as practical as an axe, but it can mess you up.

 

[darkerthanBLACK]

You can't change the scythe. The scythe was picked because when used for farming it cut lots of wheat right. Now imagine every stalk of wheat was a person getting there head cut off. It symbolizes how many death "Grim Reaper" has killed. So all of you saying its should just be a farm tool should go hide, because if i was the grim reaper i would not be to happy about you making fun of my weapon. Not only that, tons of people have used scythes as weapons so your agruments is rather pointless.

 

[xitel]

war scythes... can sut through full plate helmets...... OW!!!!


the scythe has been turned so it is an almost straight weapon instead of a horizontal bit.

So yes scythes are badass

Yeah, I don't remember when but the scythe was at one point in ancient history weaponized. It was usually used as a mounted weapon, holding it behind the mount and dragging it through a person that way.

 

[Crosseyes]

I made a scythe with a tree branch, an old saw blade, and some twine. It's pretty badass.

also, while an opponent may need to be very close to you in order for the weapon to be effective, you can use it to get too much proximity, where your opponent with some kind of straight-edged weapon won't have the room to stab or swing, and all you have to do is pull back fast enough (making sure not to slice your own neck in the process)

If skilled enough, a scythe wielder can be more deadly than any swordsman, simply because of the suprise generated by fighting someone with a weapon as crazy as that. I mean, which nation (of any time period) wastes the money to train their soldiers to combat a farming impliment? In my opinion, the mere inexplicability of the weapon is it's major advantage.

 

[LethalBargi]

well it was used by the japanese as a weapon because during an era the samurai banned civilians from using weapons so they used their everyday harvesting tools as weapons as well as normal items.

 

[Spacelord]

Scythes are just a coward's sickle.

Which, in turn, is just a coward's toothpick.

 

[ElderScribe]

They've been used quite a bit in games like NWN, it's a rather wicked looking piece of equipment, as for how effective it would be would largly be based on the persons experience with it.

 

[Darkintent]

I blame the Seventh Seal!!!
(awesome film)

 

[Shycte]

Scythes= reapers tool

Reaper=Cool

And therefor Scythes equals cool.

You can't argue with math!

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Scythes are just a coward's sickle.

Which, in turn, is just a coward's toothpick.

Ah yes.
I remember reading about the courageous early farmers that went out into their fields and had at the dastardly crops with their humble toothpicks.
Those were glorious days indeed.

I remember this old thread.
This was a quaint little thread.
We need more like it.

I also like how everything I said was in the second page, so I hopefully won't be quoted and subsequently questioned over something I said last September by people who didn't check the date of the post they quoted.

That probably sounds (Or, y'know... Looks) like I'm taking a stab at you, person that I have quoted, but it's not. Just something I've noticed from Necro'd threads in general. Particularly if I said something inflammatory.