Weapon

Weapons are used in battle by good, bad, and neutral characters. They're used to inflict pain on the wielder's foes, alter the environment, protect the holder, and sometimes even help the holder or their allies with healing.

Types of weapons
There are many kinds of weapons. Based on the media, franchise, and genre, there can be mainly one type of weapon or a large variety of them. For instance, the fantasy genre (of any media) will most likely consist of wands, tomes, and potions for weapons. In the action genre, guns, crowbars, baseball bats, knives, daggers, and even other people can be used as weapons.

Overall, weapons fall into four main categories: melee, ranged, magical, and miscellaneous objects.

Melee weapons
Melee weapons, blunt weapons, or blunt instruments (but not melee instruments) are items used in hand-to-hand combat, meaning the participants are close to each other. The weapon is usually a weighted object that has no particular point, like a blade, at which it's meant to strike the target, but that doesn't mean it can't have one. Such weapons are baseball bats, crowbars, hammers, poles, shovels, and chairs. However, some melee weapons, like swords and kunai, have blades or sharp/edgy points used to stab, cut, and/or slice targets.

Ranged weapons
Ranged weapons are objects that commonly require ammo to function. Ranged weapons can be guns, cannons, bows, and mortars. Although cannons and mortars are almost completely different from guns or bows, they still need ammo to work like the two weapons. Ranged weapons are used to attack enemies that are at a distance, one that a melee weapon wouldn't be able to reach, like seventy feet.

Magical weapons
Magical weapons are weapons not seen in our world as they're, y'know, magical. Examples of magical weapons are tomes, wands, staffs, and rings. Sometimes, other types of weapons are enchanted with magic to become magical, like a sword being enhanced with fire to become a fiery sword. Magic weapons, like ranged weapons, might need some fuel to keep working. This fuel typically takes form of mana.

Miscellaneous objects for weapons
Miscellaneous objects can also be used as weapons because Everything Is Weapons. As any object that has enough weight and you can get your hands around can be used as a weapon, this could range from pens to car keys. Misc. weapons are most likely melee, could also be magical, and are rarely ever ranged.