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Asked: October 26, 20212021-10-26T08:04:53+00:00 2021-10-26T08:04:53+00:00

Is a Scythe an official weapon?

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The sickle is an in-game weapon, but I couldn’t find the stats for the Scythe. I remember in 3.5 it had a Scythe.
In the DM book, I found that Avatar of Death use a Scythe with the following stats

Scythe

Damage: 1d8

I want to know if there is an official War Scythe in D&D 5e and where I could find it.
If not, what would be the stats for it?

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  1. Alek Richter Enlightened
    2021-10-26T08:06:14+00:00Added an answer on October 26, 2021 at 8:06 am

    Scythes do not have a stat block in 5th Edition D&D

    Whether you’re a DM looking to issue a Scythe to a player, or a player trying to convince your DM to permit your character to use one, you’ll need to roll your own statblock for it; there’s neither a Mundane nor Magical Scythe to draw from.
    My recommendation is to use the statblock for a Glaive or Halbard (which are the same)

    The reasons for this are that it’s most likely to give you a weapon that resembles the classical manner in which a Scythe is used* in combat:

    It will gain the Two-Handed property, matching the expectation that the weapon will be larger and wielded with two hands
    It will gain the Reach property, which lets the user fight from a significant distance
    It will gain the Heavy property, a companion property to the Two-Handed property that for many weapons will make them unwieldy for smaller characters

    I would probably disallow gaining benefits from the Polearm Master feat though, since a Scythe is pretty unlikely to function the exact same as a Polearm, in terms of how it is swung.

    * In Fantasy Fiction. In real life, Scythes are notoriously difficult and unfit to be used as weapons, and if D&D were attempting to recreate real life combat 1-to-1, Scythes would probably have a very poor statblock to capture that issue.

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