Item: Sickle
Originally a farming tool used for reaping grain, this one-handed weapon has a short wooden handle ending in a curved blade, sometimes sharpened on both sides.
Trait Effects
Agile: The multiple attack penalty you take with this weapon on the second attack on your turn is –4 instead of –5, and –8 instead of –10 on the third and subsequent attacks in the turn.
Finesse: You can use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on attack rolls using this melee weapon. You still calculate damage using Strength.
Trip: You can use this weapon to Trip with the Athletics skill even if you don’t have a free hand. This uses the weapon’s reach (if different from your own) and adds the weapon’s item bonus to attack rolls as an item bonus to the Athletics check. If you critically fail a check to Trip using the weapon, you can drop the weapon to take the effects of a failure instead of a critical failure.
Critical Specialisation Effects
Certain effects can grant you benefits when you make a Strike with certain weapons and get a critical success. This is called a critical specialisation effect. The exact effect depends on which weapon group your weapon belongs to, as listed below. You can always decide not to add the critical specialisation effect of your weapon.
Knife: The target takes 1d6 persistent bleed damage. You gain an item bonus to this bleed damage equal to the weapon's item bonus to attack rolls.
Related Items
| Name | Level | Rarity | Price | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wordreaper | 3 | Uncommon | 55 gp | 1d4 |
| Void Sickle | 6 | Common | 235 gp | 1d4 |
| Reaper's Crescent | 9 | Uncommon | 575 gp | 1d4 |
| Revenant Blade | 10 | Rare | 900 gp | 1d4 |
| Sinew-Song | 17 | Rare | 15000 gp | 1d4 |
| Corset Knife | - | Common | 3 sp | 1d4 |
| Dagger | - | Common | 2 sp | 1d4 |
| Spectral Dagger | - | Unique | - | 1d4 |
| Throwing Knife | - | Common | 3 sp | 1d4 |
| Throwing Knife (Extinction Curse) | - | Uncommon | 3 sp | 1d4 |
| Ghast Stiletto | 3 | Common | 60 gp | 1d4 |
| Ghoul Stiletto | 3 | Common | 60 gp | 1d4 |
| Little Love | 3 | Rare | 60 gp | 1d4 |
| Fiend's Hunger | 4 | Unique | 100 gp | 1d4 |
| Dagger of Eternal Sleep | 5 | Uncommon | 25 gp | 1d4 |
| Dog-Bone Knife | 5 | Uncommon | 150 gp | 1d4 |
| Heartripper Blade | 5 | Rare | 160 gp | 1d4 |
| Poisonous Dagger | 5 | Common | 150 gp | 1d4 |
| Serpent Dagger | 5 | Common | 150 gp | 1d4 |
| Lady's Knife | 6 | Uncommon | 200 gp | 1d4 |