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moving the axe blade to one side make it more efficient and powerful.
Now to reinvent the d&d battle axe...
That is very cool.
You can do the same thing manually yourself by "blading" the axe and turning it as it hits. Usually a little rough on the handle near the head though.
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So simple, and yet dwarves never figured it out after tens of thousands of years upon multiple worlds in the multiverse. This just goes to prove what I've always said: dwarves are dumb and preoccupied with their beard fetishes.
The axe is pretty neat though.
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You're all dwarf apologists.
moving the axe blade to one side make it more efficient and powerful.
Now to reinvent the d&d battle axe...
What he has is a log splitter, not necessarily an axe. How does it work for chopping down trees?
I'd like to see how it works in other situations.
Its great for splitting, but really an normal axe isn't the proper roll for that, a splitting maul is.
Let's see how it works for limbing and felling, or forcible entry floor that matter.
Even with a splitting maul some chunks are too big or too spongy in the center to split well, and the maul get stuck.
I'd like to see how it works in other situations.
It won't.
I'm sure it'll kill pretty well.
Even with a splitting maul some chunks are too big or too spongy in the center to split well, and the maul get stuck.Its great for splitting, but really an normal axe isn't the proper roll for that, a splitting maul is.
Let's see how it works for limbing and felling, or forcible entry floor that matter.
This.
Elm, for example, is soft and has a strong connection between the fibers. Harder woods like olive or oak work better with mauls.
Interesting.
So, yeah, in real life, this new axe may or may not do as much damage to a human (or other) body. Rather than have a long internetversation about it factoring fighting style, a target's material composition, and the fact that we do or do not really have murderous intentions, I just wanted to have fun with it.
Not seeing this thread, I started a new one about the same axe some days later about turning it into fantasy weapon:
I came across this article today, where an inventor in Finland re-designed the basic wood-chopping axe (a tool thousands of years in use) to require less force and to be safer.
Immediately, I started to imagine it as a medieval fantasy weapon. Gnomes are the tinkerer race that I automatically think of (and "Vipukirves" from the article even sounds like it could be a gnomish word), so I started imagining the design from their perspective.
I came up with the idea that a Lever Axe has the same stats as a Battleaxe, except that it costs three times as much and it has the special quality "Kinetic." This negates the penalty to attack and damage that a wielder with low strength might possess.
The term "Kinetic" might need some work, but the few minutes I spent browsing the thesaurus didn't turn up anything better. Has anybody seen a weapon or special quality similar to this?
So, a wielder with a 10 or higher Strength could wield the Lever Axe the same as they could a Battleaxe, but it's unlikely they would buy the more expensive weapon. However, a low strength melee combatant who wanted to even the odds a bit might consider this weapon. I can envision this being a common weapon in a gnomish army or militia.
Another option is to make the weapon exotic and rename it to Gnome Lever Axe. This would allow gnomes to use the weapon as a martial weapon due to their Weapon Familiarity racial trait.
Thoughts?
I don't see it as a weapon in wide use, but it seems like a good starter weapon for the rare case that you may have a low-strength character that needs a melee weapon.