Falchion (Action)

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Heroic Action Role-Play

Falchion

One-handed blacksmith melee weapon

Hands: 1H
Size: Small
Tech: Blacksmith
Type: Melee
Range: Adjacent
Damage: +4 Cutting
Properties: Great Blow, improvised

A short chopping weapon and tool. The cutting edge the falchion is curved, widening toward the point, and had a straight, unsharpened back edge. The balance is far out along the blade, making it somewhat like an axe in use and power. This weapon and tool is used in many cultures under different names.

• The machete is a tool for clearing vegetation and sometime weapon that differs from the falchion mainly in the lack of a guard and a simpler hilt, though some machetes do have a guard for greater protection of hands during work.
• A cutlass is a short, broad sabre or slashing sword, with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge, and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket shaped guard. A common naval weapon.
• The kopis is an ancient Greek tool/weapon comparable to the machete. The makhaira was also similar, but was intended primarily to be a weapon rather than a tool.
• The seax is a Germanic tool/weapon that was also similar in function, although different in shape.
• The kukri is a Nepalese curved blade used for many purposes similar to the machete but also used for slaughtering animals. Small kukiris correspond to the Hand Axe.
• The parang is a Malaysian knife that many machetes are based on.
• The grosse messer is a large knife from medieval Central Europe, employed both as a tool and as a weapon.
• The fascine knife is a somewhat similar tool/weapon used by European armies throughout the late 18th to early 20th centuries.
• A very large meat cleaver can also function as a falchion.