Dawn of the Dragons: In Clash of the Dragons, the Druid’s Sickle is a special weapon that can only be used by, unsurprisingly, druids.
Can Druid use scimitar?
Are metal weapons exempt, or do they need, like, wooden scimitars? The no-metal rule applies to armor and shields, and druids are proficient with scimitars.
Why do druids use sickles?
Druids would certainly have used sickles to cut mistletoe. Mistletoe is a sacred plant and it would have been used for many purposes. Folklore refers to mistletoe as ‘all heal’ because of its miraculous healing properties.
What happens if a Druid touches metal?
What happens if a druid wears metal armor? The druid explodes. Druids have a taboo against wearing metal armor and wielding a metal shield. The taboo has been part of the class’s story since the class first appeared in Eldritch Wizardry (1976) and the original Player’s Handbook (1978).
Why can Druids use a scimitar?
Gygax stated in later message board posts that “It is because the scimitar is as close a sword weapon I could come up with to match the druids’ mistletoe-harvesting sickle.” But he’d actually introduced the idea that larger curved blades were allowed even before scimitars existed in the game, so there’s some hazy …
Why does a druid use a sickle instead of a weapon?
Tool: besides being a weapon, a sickle is a farming implement. A druid might be caught unawares in a barn and have a sickle in reach. They might be traveling incognito, disguised as a farmer who might be expected to have a sickle but not a “real weapon.”
Why do druids use Scimitars in dungeons and Dragons?
That isn’t how the scimitar arrived as a standard Druid weapon. For Dungeons and Dragons, the original source of the druid and his weapons is in Supplement 3 to Original D&D, Eldritch Wizardry. On page 2, it limits Druids to the following weapons:
Which is better a scimitar or a sickle?
Weight: the sickle is lighter, so if encumbrance is an issue, you might pack it instead (or as SPavel put it, you might keep a sickle as a backup because you’re already weighed down by your main weapon). Magic: maybe at some point you find a magic sickle that’s better than your plain ol’ scimitar.
When did the Druids catch mistletoe with the sickle?
Pliny describes the Druids of Gaul cutting mistletoe hanging from oak trees with a golden sickle and catching it on a white cloth. This rite, apparently also by tradition, took place during the Winter Solstice, though he doesn’t go into detail.
