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best weapon in fantasy?

#81 caladanbrood

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Posted 16 January 2008 - 12:26 AM

Yeah, it is page 2;)

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Posted 16 January 2008 - 04:37 AM

wow, those lazy guns sound like the bringers of the apocalypse. my vote goes to them

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Posted 16 January 2008 - 04:41 AM

Whatever the name of Luke's pathetic blaster is in first episode of Star Wars gets my vote.

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Posted 16 January 2008 - 10:34 AM

I suggest the humble sock with half a brick in it which was more than enough to defeat a sourceror and things from beyond space and time.

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Posted 16 January 2008 - 05:52 PM

Valgard;243384 said:

I suggest the humble sock with half a brick in it which was more than enough to defeat a sourceror and things from beyond space and time.

*lmao* Agreed. And a good pair of knuckle dusters are much more exciting than some sword no matter what it can do.

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Posted 16 January 2008 - 06:35 PM

Is it just me, or do the Lazy Guns sound like a weaponized version of Hitchhiker's Improbability Drive?

Fundamentally, any planet-devstating sci-fi weapon is going to trump most fantasy thingies. How many fantasy weapons can trump a Death Star?

That said...
- It was the Glaive, not the Krull - Krull was the name of the planet.

- Darth Maul's double-saber is infinitely cooler than every other lightsaber until someone comes up with lightsaber nunchucks.

- whatever the weapon, Wolverine wins. End of debate.

- Abyss, somewhat embarassed as knowing the Krull thing...

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Posted 16 January 2008 - 06:41 PM

Abyss;243557 said:

Fundamentally, any planet-devstating sci-fi weapon is going to trump most fantasy thingies. How many fantasy weapons can trump a Death Star?

Not really a weapon per se, but Covenant's White Gold ring is pretty awesomely powerful... can part the fabric of reality and break the arch of time etc. Also the Staff of Law from the Second Chronicles...

So where sci-fi destroys planets, fantasy destroys reality :eek:

Finally, I'd like to remind everyone of the awesomeness of the Subtle Knife from HDM

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Posted 16 January 2008 - 06:47 PM

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 02:29 PM

Maybe it's been mentioned already, but what about our own dear Cotillion's rope? Isn't that just fantastic for being simple, old school and bad-ass all at once? Not in and of itself, but because of the skill of the wielder, which is what's missing from many of these glory weapons listed here.

Meaning no offense, mind. Just that a rope in the hands of an assassin god for me trumps any "point, fire, destroy" gun, even if it wipes out a planet.

And, it can hold your trousers up at a pinch.

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 02:45 PM

Balefire, though not exactly a physical weapon as such.

Other than that the Claw/Talon spring based crossbows.

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 10:00 PM

in no particular oder:

glamdring

excalibur

fid's uber-crossbow

memory, sorrow & thorn

sten's knife

detritus's double-uber-crossbow

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 10:26 PM

Omras Ghum;244193 said:

...excalibur

I'm not pissing on anyone's opinion, but i've never gotten this. Maybe i just haven't read the right Arthurian stories, but fundamentally, it's a bright shiny sword with an unfortunate attraction to stones, maybe with a curious origin from some lady who was swimming and handed it to Art so he didn't see her in her birthday suit.

One might, might, make the case that Ex was unbreakbale, but otherwise it didn't DO anything.

No matter which version you buy, Art was an impressive guy and the sword was his signature piece, kind of like MC Hammer's pants or Ron Jeremy's... wel, you get the idea.But as magic fantasy lit weapons go, the unbreakable sword seems fairly standard.

- Abyss, just wishes it was a vorpal weapon or something....

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 10:33 PM

memory sorrow and thorn...
(spoilers for the ending of this series below)

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 11:13 PM

Obdigore;244231 said:

memory sorrow and thorn...
(spoilers for the ending of this series below)

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You're kidding me? That's what they did? I gave up on that series halfway through the first because it was boring and unoriginal, but that's a direct rip off of the Sword of Shannara. Which book isn't exactly original in itself. And frankly that's unacceptable for a series which bigs itself up as being different and unexpected within its own pages.

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Posted 18 January 2008 - 07:18 AM

polishgenius;244260 said:

You're kidding me? That's what they did?

Well, errm... If I remember correctly... they could also sing. Yeah. Isn't that awesome?

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Posted 18 January 2008 - 10:18 PM

Dag;244353 said:

Well, errm... If I remember correctly... they could also sing. Yeah. Isn't that awesome?

i can see it now: "ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, coming on stage, the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trio..."

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music starts and:
"aruba, jamaica, ooooooh i wanna take ya......"

meh. Link was dead :(

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Posted 18 January 2008 - 10:51 PM

Abyss;244223 said:

Well, the scabbard would have made him into Wolverine, but he chose the sword.

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Posted 19 January 2008 - 01:31 AM

Is there any more amazing weapon in fantasy than the ordinary sword.

All weapons shine to be different, but an ordinary sword has character beyond attributes, it's a weapon that is both pearless and mighty but at the same time it is totally unrecognisable. The best weapon is a weapon that gives a skilled fighter a chance to shine, obviously an ordinary sword is a standard weapon so it gives all, roughly, the same equivalent chance. Beautiful.

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Posted 19 January 2008 - 01:41 AM

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Is there any more amazing weapon in fantasy than the ordinary sword

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Posted 19 January 2008 - 03:08 AM

Morgoth;240437 said:

Carrot's sword, which is suspisciously free of magical enchantments.

Also always had a thing for Tempus Est, the executioner's sword in the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.

apart from those.. well, t'lan imass weapons are cool,

I'll second carrots sword, it is so normal it's bizarre. But it does embody the soul of swordiness.