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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 376837" data-attributes="member: 505">Well, the reason I though of using this weapon is because such a weapon did exist in Japan.I can't think of what it was called, but I believe that in real life Nobunaga (sp?) used it (see the Onimusha video game).I've also seen it in a few comic books and, probably, a samurai movie or two.   Since it existed in RL, I figured that would probably be some kind of stats on it for Rokugan (I could swear that I read something about its stats online...although that may have been something homebrewed on someone's site).Now, as to why someone would take a regular two-bladed sword instead of this, I could ask the same think about the shikomi-zue.The shikomi-zue is a bamboo staff with a concealed spearhead on one end.  You can use it like a quarterstaff, doing 1d6 or 1d6/1d6.However, when you pop the spear, it does 1d8.Now, why would you choose a regular quarterstaff when you can pick a shikomi-zue and do 1d8/1d6?   In actuality, I don't have any great problem using the standard two-bladed sword if there isn't an official one for the katana.I just posted my question to find out about the exotic weapon feat. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>