Many scapers have decided to tattoo weapons on their skin to celebrate the connection they have with Old School RuneScape. OSRS weapon tattoos is a big collection of tattoos inspired by the game and it includes many recreations of very popular weapons
The truth is that in expanding this collection I came across so many amazing Old School RuneScape weapons tattoos that making a detailed article about all of them would have been too big of a task. So I decided to break it down into separate articles wherever there were many tattoos of the same weapon. These are all the OSRS weapons that haven’t been included in a separate article dedicated to a single weapon type:
- Dragon Dagger tattoos (40 unique tattoos)
- Godsword tattoos (46 unique Godswords)
- Dragon Scimitar tattoos (18 different tattoos)
- T-bows tattoos (8 unique twisted bows)
- Osmumten’s Fang tattoos( 8 unique fangs)
- Scythe of Vitur tattoos ( 16 individual schythes)
- Ancient Staff tattoos (7 unique tattoos)
- Shields (24 tattoos)
- Other weapons (current article) – 27 tattoos
Iban’s Staff tattoo
This simple Iban’s staff made its way on this scaper’s skin, together with other interesting tattoos. The tattoo is simple, monochromatic, and strategically placed between other tattoos on the scaper’s leg.
Rune Scimi and Magic Shortbow Tattoo
This tattoo features an Old School RuneScape-inspired design with a pixelated PK skull, a rune scimitar, and a magic shortbow, accompanied by a banner reading “1v1 me noob”. The style uses bold outlines and solid fills, mimicking the blocky, pixelated aesthetic of the game. The shading is minimal, focusing on simple, flat colors to maintain the retro video game style.
Trident of the Seas Tattoo
This Trident of the Seas tattoo features a minimalist design with clean lines and simple shading. The style leans toward a traditional approach with bold outlines and a flat color palette. The details wrapping around the shaft adds contrast and dimension while the shading technique is light and consistent, giving the tattoo a balanced look while maintaining clarity and simplicity.
Toxic Trident Tattoo
This tattoo depicts the toxic trident or trident of the swamp, rendered in a neo-traditional style. It features fine black outlines with vibrant green and purple highlights to accentuate the weapon’s toxic theme. The chain element is detailed with consistent linework, creating a sense of flow. Minimal shading is used, focusing on bold color fills and clean line art to maintain clarity and detail.
Toxic Blowpipe Tattoo
This tattoo represents the Toxic Blowpipe, arguably the best dps ranged weapon in Old School RuneScape. It uses a geometric style with angular shapes and distinct edges to depict the weapon. The design incorporates muted green and purple tones, which match the colors of the in-game weapon. The technique focuses on solid color blocking, blending shapes to create depth without the use of outlines, giving it a clean, modern appearance.
Dragon Claws Tattoo
This dragon claws tattoo is rendered in a 3D style, creating the illusion of depth and texture. The technique emphasizes clean shading and smooth gradient transitions to simulate realism. It uses bold red tones with precise line work for the claw shapes and edges. The detailing focuses on a ripped effect, achieved through careful layering and color blending.
Dragon Claws Tattoo
This dragon claws tattoo brings the spec weapon to life in a simplified and bold style. The design uses strong outlines and solid red and black fill, focusing on contrast and clarity. The technique emphasizes clean line work and flat coloring without detailed shading or gradients. The intersecting claw marks are symmetrical, reinforcing the clean and structured style.
Dragon Claws and Whip Tattoo
This tattoo features an OSRS design combining the dragon claws, the Neitiznot helmet and the abyssal whip. It uses a bold traditional style, characterized by thick black outlines and solid color fills. The red and gold tones are applied with consistent saturation, and the shading is minimal, focusing on clean, flat fields of color. The placement is on the chest, with the design incorporating sharp, angular shapes and a symmetrical layout.
Dragon Longsword
This is a colourful dragon longsword tattoo with an interesting design that features bold colours and contrasts. The tattoo contains smooth shadowing that brings dimension as well as small highlights that serve the same purpose. On top of the dragon longsword, the design also contains a scroll with the text RuneScape, so it is a text tattoo.
Sword and runes
This scaper got a large OSRS tattoo on their forearm. The tattoo was created only with black ink and it displays both a sword and a collection of OSRS runes. The design is complex with deep and elaborate shadows and highlights as well as a unifying pattern for the background.
Toxic Trident tattoo
This scaper got a Toxic trident or Trident of the swamp on their forearm together with a set of colourful runes (law, air, and earth). The staff is created using black an colourful inks with a simple style that features fine line detailing.
Abyssal Whip Tattoo
This is an abyssal whip tattoo designed on the arm of the scaper. It is monochromatic and it has very clean lines and beautifully created shadows.
Abyssal Whip tattoo
This is a minimalist version of the abyssal whip made with black ink, and featuring simple lines and solid colour blocks.
Abyssal Bludgeon Tattoo
This tattoo features the Abyssal Bludgeon done in a black and grey style, using bold black shapes and dot shading to create texture and contrast. The angular, fragmented design captures the weapon’s details while maintaining simplicity.
Voidwaker Tattoo
This is a colourful Voidwaker. The best in slot spec weapon is part of a sleeve which you can see in full in the dedicated article. The design is beautifully created with clean outlines, smooth gradients, a tad of colour, and fine details.
Dragon Warhammer tattoo
This tattoo shows the Dragon Warhammer. The style appears to be traditional or neo-traditional, characterized by bold outlines and solid, vibrant colors, especially red and black. The shading is simple and uses gradient fills to give the hammer a three-dimensional look. The placement is on the forearm, a common spot for detailed pieces like this. The hammer design is centered, with the handle extending down the forearm, making it fit well with the natural contours of the arm.
Dragon Warhammer Tattoo
This tattoo features the OSRS dragon warhammer, executed in a bold traditional style. It uses thick black outlines and flat, solid colors with minimal shading. The red and gray tones are applied with consistent saturation to define the weapon’s head and handle. The design is small and compact, placed on the inner forearm for clear visibility. The numbers “196” are included in clean black script, adding a personalized element. The overall approach prioritizes clean lines and simplicity.
Dragon Warhammer Tattoo
The dragon warhammer is a pretty useful spec weapon in game and this scaper decided to always have one with them and got this colourful dragon warhammer tattoo on their inner forearm. The tattoo is of a small size and it includes two separate styles of tattoos for the handle and the head of the hammer, with the head being a fully filled tattoo, while the handle only has a partial shading and not a full filling. And speaking of spec weapons, check out these godsword tattoos.
Iron Scimitar Tattoo
This tattoo depicts an Iron Scimitar rendered in a traditional style, using bold black outlines and simple, flat color fills. The design features minimal shading and emphasizes a clean, cartoon-like aesthetic. The use of black and muted yellow tones reflects the in-game item’s appearance while maintaining a straightforward and classic tattoo approach.
Rune Scimitar 8-bit Tattoo
This rune scimitar tattoo is created in the 8-bit style and it features the clean perfection of the edges of each pixel. The artist used the the blue specific to the rune scimitar together with black for contour, brown for the shadow, yellow for the handle and a light blue for highlights.
Rune Scimitar Tattoo
This is a rune scimitar tattoo next to a gnome child tattoo. They are very contrasting even though they both represent elements from Old School RuneScape. The scimitar is created with colourful ink, while the gnome is made fully with black ink.
Dragon Hunter Lance Tattoo
When the goal is killing dragons, or dragon bosses then the dragon hunter lance is your best bet! This scaper surely loves killing dragons, so much so that they chose to tattoo their favourite dragonbane weapon on their leg. The design is very interesting and it surprises with the composition being almost entirely made in black ink, but some small details with light blue. The scaper admits it’s their “first colored tattoo after so many B&W ones, and also first Runescape tattoo, paying homage to one of my first games ever”.
Ancient Scepter Tattoo
This scaper got the outline of the Ancient Scepter, the upgraded version of the Ancient staff, on their forearm. The design is large and realized with clean and precise lines.
Colourful Ancient Scepter Tattoo
Based on size and a few details this could actually be the same ancient sceptre tattoo after the artist added colour to the piece. The tattoo is created using smooth shading and a pop of purple and blue.
Zombie Axe tattoo
This is a weapon tattoo that took inspiration from the 2004 release: the zombie axe. The artist used only black ink to give life to loads of fine line details both on the blade and handle of the weapon. The tattoo is realized with an advanced shading technique and extra clean lines.
Bow of Faerdhinen tattoo
This tattoo represents the Bow of Faerdhinen from Old School RuneScape. It uses a minimalist style, with clean lines and soft shading to capture the shape of the bow. The design is simple, relying on the geometric form of the bow to create a subtle look. The placement is on the arm, and the bow’s curves follow the natural flow of the skin, giving it a balanced appearance. The tattoo primarily uses black and gray shading, with slight tonal variations to add depth to the piece.
Dark Bow Tattoo
This Dark Bow tattoo is created in a cartoonish and illustrative style. The design features bold black outlines and minimal shading, with flat color fills emphasizing the wooden texture of the bow and the details of the string and spikes.
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