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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 3952221" data-attributes="member: 3087">Sorry, I need to be more clear when I post.What I meant was that "in all the japanese samurai movies I've watched people fight with one hand".[The style is similar to the sport Kendo, where you hold the sword with two hands and the lower fingers on the bottom hand are most essential. Supposidly anyway. That's where the whole Yakuza-finger-chopping thing comes from. It's not really (or not just) a painful way to humiliate someone. The more you've messed up (and the more joints you've lost) the easier prey you become if they have to kill you later.]The katana and wakazashi were social signifiers in the country that invented them (Japan). They weren't part of a two handed fighting style.[The swords have different functions really, the longer Katana was wielded, usually two handed for actual fighting, the wakizashi was a secondary weapon and also used for certain kinds of ritual activities, committing suicide being the most famous.Mostly though the second sword was a sign that you were a member of nobility. Nobles wanted armed servants, so having one sword couldn't be a sign of nobility. IIRC non-nobles weren't allowed to wear a second sword; I think the penalty for impersonating a noble during the "closed country period" was death.]So all I meant was that, since my own experiences with Katana/Wakizashi (experience here being stuff I learned in Japan, not actual skill/experience of course) meant that I wasn't really able to visualize how a two weapon fighting style with those two blades works, and so my descriptions may have been a bit vague.[I -did- try to use it in terms of descriptions in the fight with Blackcoat though.]At your next dot (***) you'll actually have some more real combat options.The first two dots of TWF in WoD are defensive. The next two are offensive (but losing defense is a big deal in my mind so it's not a "straight bonus").-Personally- I could easily see someone getting dots *** and **** just with a Katana or any other agile combat weapon. I suppose they stuck it in TWF because they couldn't think of something else?Dunno.</blockquote>

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