Bestest. Thread. Ever.
I have hundreds of ideas for weird, cool weapons that I invented (well, conceptually anyway. I'm not blacksmith... or whoever/whatever actually makes them nowadays). The only problem is they can be a little hard to describe...
Here's one of my favourites. It's a simple, circular flick-knife type thing used my one of my characters... (Though not one in Planeshift)
Basically, it's about the size of a
chakram (maybe a little smaller). It has the same 'ying-yang' design as the one in the picture, except half of the ying-yang is the folded-in blade. It's black around the outside (a kind of polymer - hard and lightweight, yet not slippery - like kevlar)) and also along the divider (like in Xena's one) which allows it to be gripped either from the outside or the middle.
Then, with a flick of the wrist (or with my character, usually with one finger - like spinning a revolver), the blade can be flicked out and used either as a kind of large circular dagger, or a frisbee of death
The blade is also shaped like one half of a
yin-yang, and is serrated along the edge (for bone-sawing
).
If you want I can do a simple diagram...
