This game is supposed to be fun. Thus, I support fun actions.
So do I.
"Waste MHP or even MMP on silly weapons" is not fun to me.
...Two? I must be forgetting something fierce, but I recall one of them using a tool, and that was the nunchaku. Which is technically just speculated at being used as a farming implement. I don't really see why it would, a sickle would probably be a lot easier.
Well, since katana are obviously weapons through and through, it's obvious that the other one mist either be Raphael's sai or Donatello's bo staff. Since sai are not, IRL, sharp, it's possible that those were what he was talking about. There's probably some farm-ey stuff you can do with sticks, too.
I wasn't arguing the effectiveness, just that because something is considered a tool doesn't mean that it isn't a weapon. (In fact now that I think about it, by the loosest definition of what a tool is, all weapons are tools.)
And just because something is a weapon doesn't mean it's a
good weapon.
And I'm not citing TMNT. I used it as an (silly) example, not as proof. I briefly considered Jackie Chan and his tendency to use what ever is close at hand to defend himself (as a slightly sillier example) in his movies instead.
If it's supposed to help prove your point, it's proof.
Also though I wouldn't knock some silly suggestions, because we never know what might turn out to be a good weapon in the Warrens. We had a laser-firing dagger, so the more silly ideas might become more useful depending on what abilities they get. Somehow I think creativity will pay off in the long run... granted that doesn't necessarily extend to the ridiculous.
And I'd call drill-whips, swordchucks, and the like "ridiculous".
I think you just need to quit categorizing everything as either logical or flat-out retarded. We have got plenty of room for middle ground.
It's less "A or B" and more "close enough to A that I can agree with it" or "close enough to B that I don't agree with it".
A... A parrying dagger used as a pitchfork? I... Guess I can see that, due to its shape, but I highly doubt that. Its more akin to a main gauche or a sword breaker due to it being used as a companion weapon, held in the off hand.
One thing to note: They weren't sharp.
A pitch fork's prongs are much too long however, as the Sais are brought low and wide in order to catch and redirect assaults with a parry more easily. I don't understand why they'd sacrifice range and cut off the length instead of making it a military fork either. In mass combat, its polearms that win the day because its easier to both make and train people with.
EDIT: I guess they could shorten or remove the other two prongs, thinking on it.
They could have also have started with something unlike European pitchforks.
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