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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7536992" data-attributes="member: 12377">&quot;Glaive&quot; covers a wide variety of medieval weapons, some of which were large and clunky.&quot;Naginata&quot; also evolved in size and shape over the centuries, but the one I'm thinking of is the relatively late model that is basically &quot;katana with a really long handle.&quot; The blade is about as long and thin as a katana (hence, my suggested d8 damage die) and the way you fight with it is very swift and flashy, so not very much like a heavy weapon. Actually in keeping with the setting-neutral approach you could call this weapon a &quot;light glaive&quot; and cover certain similar European weapons. For the record, I also think there should be a &quot;light flail,&quot; because refluffing a club to be nunchaku just feels weird to me, and historically flails came it a lot of sizes and shapes too.Because then, for a kensei, all the d10 polearm options are very much superior to the d10 versatile options. It's not strictly superior because in theory you can hold a versatile weapon in one hand and downgrade the damage die to d8, but I'm betting that in practice this will never really happen. This is why I think a d8 reach weapon would be cool. (Of course at 11th level the whip becomes a d8 reach weapon for the kensei, but I have trouble refluffing a whip into a glaive, too.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="77IM, post: 7536992, member: 12377"] "Glaive" covers a wide variety of medieval weapons, some of which were large and clunky. "Naginata" also evolved in size and shape over the centuries, but the one I'm thinking of is the relatively late model that is basically "katana with a really long handle." The blade is about as long and thin as a katana (hence, my suggested d8 damage die) and the way you fight with it is very swift and flashy, so not very much like a heavy weapon. Actually in keeping with the setting-neutral approach you could call this weapon a "light glaive" and cover certain similar European weapons. For the record, I also think there should be a "light flail," because refluffing a club to be nunchaku just feels weird to me, and historically flails came it a lot of sizes and shapes too. Because then, for a kensei, all the d10 polearm options are very much superior to the d10 versatile options. It's not strictly superior because in theory you can hold a versatile weapon in one hand and downgrade the damage die to d8, but I'm betting that in practice this will never really happen. This is why I think a d8 reach weapon would be cool. (Of course at 11th level the whip becomes a d8 reach weapon for the kensei, but I have trouble refluffing a whip into a glaive, too.) [/QUOTE]

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