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<blockquote data-quote="aurance" data-source="post: 990657" data-attributes="member: 12854"><p>Shadowrun Man, just out of curiosity, where are you getting your information?</p><p></p><p>According to everything I've read, most Japanese swords except very early ones were curved, and there is no distinction between "katana" and "battle sword". Swords varied in curvature and length, depending on the scale of warfare at the time. During periods of heavy warfare, I believe the swords were longer and had more pronounced curvature.</p><p></p><p>In any case most japanese swords were simply called "sword" (or "daito", long-sword, as opposed to a short shord, "wakizashi"). Nothing special about the word "katana" except as a designation of how the sword was worn (blade up, in the obi, as opposed to blade down, which was "tachi"). *Some* smiths took extreme care in crafting the blades, yes, but swords of such quality could be found in Europe too. And a large part of the Japanese forging practices were to compensate for the poor quality steel. With modern metallurgical techniques, or with superior quality steel, such forge-folding is largely unnecessary.</p><p></p><p>IMO bastard sword is perfectly fine for emulating the Japanese-style sword. Wielding technique is I think slightly different but as far as D&D weapons are broken down it's a pretty good approximation. Heck, there are a *lot* of different weapons we could call "long sword," some with very different fighting styles, but for the purposes of the game I think any further breakdowns are unnecessary.</p><p></p><p>Of course, YMMV.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aurance, post: 990657, member: 12854"] Shadowrun Man, just out of curiosity, where are you getting your information? According to everything I've read, most Japanese swords except very early ones were curved, and there is no distinction between "katana" and "battle sword". Swords varied in curvature and length, depending on the scale of warfare at the time. During periods of heavy warfare, I believe the swords were longer and had more pronounced curvature. In any case most japanese swords were simply called "sword" (or "daito", long-sword, as opposed to a short shord, "wakizashi"). Nothing special about the word "katana" except as a designation of how the sword was worn (blade up, in the obi, as opposed to blade down, which was "tachi"). *Some* smiths took extreme care in crafting the blades, yes, but swords of such quality could be found in Europe too. And a large part of the Japanese forging practices were to compensate for the poor quality steel. With modern metallurgical techniques, or with superior quality steel, such forge-folding is largely unnecessary. IMO bastard sword is perfectly fine for emulating the Japanese-style sword. Wielding technique is I think slightly different but as far as D&D weapons are broken down it's a pretty good approximation. Heck, there are a *lot* of different weapons we could call "long sword," some with very different fighting styles, but for the purposes of the game I think any further breakdowns are unnecessary. Of course, YMMV. [/QUOTE]
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