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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6567239" data-attributes="member: 57383">There are katanas in the 3E Oriental Adventures. It says they're masterwork bastard swords. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />As far as its effectiveness in combat goes, it's pretty much equivalent to a +3 weapon. It's certainly nowhere near the +7 it's estimated price suggests.I tried a few internet searches before I wrote up that crimson katana draft but couldn't find a magic item power to fit.I guess the returning property is a sort-of match, since it performs a similar function, except the weapon flies back to your hand after being thrown instead of teleporting when called. That's worth a +1 bonus, so &quot;teleport to hand&quot; ought to be worth more, like +2, but anything more than that seems much.I'm not that worried about the estimated price being so high - it's just one of those cases were the SRD is a bit off. Like for monster's Challenge Ratings. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Speaking of costs that make little sense. Why does a helm of teleportation cost 73,500 gp and boots of teleportation 49,000 gp when they are do exactly the same thing?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6567239, member: 57383"] There are katanas in the 3E [I]Oriental Adventures[/I]. It says they're masterwork bastard swords. :p As far as its effectiveness in combat goes, it's pretty much equivalent to a +3 weapon. It's certainly nowhere near the +7 it's estimated price suggests. I tried a few internet searches before I wrote up that [I]crimson katana[/I] draft but couldn't find a magic item power to fit. I guess the [I]returning[/I] property is a sort-of match, since it performs a similar function, except the weapon flies back to your hand after being thrown instead of teleporting when called. That's worth a +1 bonus, so "teleport to hand" ought to be worth more, like +2, but anything more than that seems much. I'm not that worried about the estimated price being so high - it's just one of those cases were the SRD is a bit off. Like for monster's Challenge Ratings. ;) Speaking of costs that make little sense. Why does a [I]helm of teleportation[/I] cost 73,500 gp and [I]boots of teleportation[/I] 49,000 gp when they are do exactly the same thing? [/QUOTE]

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