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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7247788" data-attributes="member: 6802951">Pretty much the same difference as the Longsword and Katana: They're direct equivalents just with different names.Its a sword onna stick. Variations such as length of stick and weight of blade are common even among weapons with the same name. The naginata was favoured as a weapon for wives of samurai because while a samurai used primarily bow and spear from horseback on a battlefield, it was assumed that their wife would be fighting in defense of the home, and thus on foot in single combat. Shorter polearms like the naginata are effective for this because they outreach a sword and the length of shaft also allows even a weaker user to generate enough force for a killing blow through leverage.I think the insistence on making japanese weapons finesse versions of ones in the PHB is probably more to do with minmaxing character damage than any sort of racial superiority agenda.</blockquote>