Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tenniel" data-source="post: 4560779" data-attributes="member: 61866">If you are going to do a samurai you must first carefully stat up the katana.  Bastard sword is a good start, but remember historically these blades were folded a million times, the most finely balanced weapon of all time and could slice through 10,000 ashigaru spear wielding conscripts in a single swing. I suggest: Katana 1H Superior 1d12 Heavy Blade or Light Blade High Crit Brutal-1 Versatile and for the two handed version: No-dachi 2H Superior 2d8 Heavy Blade High Crit Brutal-2  make them 1/2 the weight and 10 times the cost Anyway, I'm back to eating Pocky and instant ramen while watching too much Highlander and anime. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /> but seriously: Defining a katana (or other japanese sword) as a superior weapon means (most) every samurai should have Weap Prof:Bastard Sword (otherwise they'd be better off using a spear).  If the samurai PC is a one off in the campaign then it probably is OK to be a bit more exotic.  However, if saumurai were more commonplace, I would say katana=long sword and no-dachi=2hd sword.  Maybe have a feat that allows the user to treat a long sword statted katana as a bastard sword statted weapon. I would save the exotic full-blade to represent more exotic japanese arms like the (perhaps apochryphal, at least in terms of use) zanbato.  Can't think off a exotic (i.e. superior) version for the katana (maybe the okatana?).</blockquote>

Verification