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The sickle is an in-game weapon, but I couldn't find the stats for the Scythe.
I remember in 3.5 it had a Scythe.
In the DM book, I found that Avatar of Death use a Scythe with the following stats
Scythe
Damage: 1d8
I want to know if there is an official War Scythe in D&D 5e and where I could find it.
If not, what would be the stats for it?
Whether you're a DM looking to issue a Scythe to a player, or a player trying to convince your DM to permit your character to use one, you'll need to roll your own statblock for it; there's neither a Mundane nor Magical Scythe to draw from.
The reasons for this are that it's most likely to give you a weapon that resembles the classical manner in which a Scythe is used* in combat:
I would probably disallow gaining benefits from the Polearm Master feat though, since a Scythe is pretty unlikely to function the exact same as a Polearm, in terms of how it is swung.
* In Fantasy Fiction. In real life, Scythes are notoriously difficult and unfit to be used as weapons, and if D&D were attempting to recreate real life combat 1-to-1, Scythes would probably have a very poor statblock to capture that issue.
All weapon options available to players are in the PHB on page 149.
However, there are weapons that are physically somewhat similar to a scythe, namely:
You shouldn't have much difficulty convincing your DM to permit you to buy a homebrew scythe with the stats of a glaive.
In fact, unless your DM is really strict, he (or she) will probably allow you to re-flavor any weapon into a scythe. That way, you can, for example, use the longsword stats (1d8 slashing, versatile) for a scythe. Balance-wise, this makes literally no difference whatsoever and merely has an RP-effect, so any DM I know would allow it.
As the other answers have already pointed out, there are currently no stats for a Scythe weapon in any of the official products. It certainly isn't listed on the weapons table in PHB (p. 149).
The best way to introduce a Scythe that I've found is simply reskinning a Glaive. Other answers have suggested this, but I've actually done this in the past (see below). A Glaive is a heavy, two-handed weapon with 10 ft. reach, like how you would imagine a Scythe would be, and although typically farmers would wield Scythes as makeshift weapons, the martial weapon proficiency represents how unwieldy they would be without the proper training and practice. The d10 slashing damage also seems representative of the Scythe's large blade.
As DM, I have had two separate players in two separate games ask me about having a Scythe. In both instances I offered them the option of reskinning a Glaive. It worked well for both of them (one was a Paladin, the other a Pact of the Blade Warlock).
The two-handed, heavy and reach properties, as well as the d10 slashing damaging, really made it "feel" like a large Scythe, but RAW, it was a Glaive, so there were no balance concerns whatsoever (for example, no one could use it with a shield, since that's not something the Glaive would allow either). The Paladin character even used it with Polearm Master, since it is actually a Glaive regarding the mechanics, and none of this caused any problems for us.
To the best of my knowledge it hasn't been add as an official weapon. You could use roughly the same stats as from 3rd edition, but 5th edition doesn't support the extra critical multiplier from that edition making it less useful.
You could try using similar stats to that of the halberd or glaive.
If you want to try to keep the extra critical multiplier and are willing or able to house rules give it 2d4 damage, heavy and two-handed properties and on a critical hit you roll damage dice 4 times instead of twice.
