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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6461847" data-attributes="member: 50895"><p>I'm fine with katana doing 1d8, the nodaichi at d10 is the equivalent of a bastard sword among Japanese swords. For some reasons some sword enthusiasts are convinced that katana was somehow superior to all other blades. While I agree it was a remarkable weapon and certainly well made, due to inferior metals and the apples and oranges way a katana is wielded versus a western blade, as well as the fact that the armor worn by opponents of katana wielders wore lacquer, silk chain and scale, as opposed to full metal suits of armor having a sharper blade was more effective to eastern armor versus western armor. Most western swords were not that sharp, so that they could survive a battle against a metal clad warrior. A katana versus full metal armor would chip and dull quickly.</p><p></p><p>My parents possess a 16th century katana as a family heirloom, as well as several katana and wakizashi blades only (the handles haven't survived). Though my mother's side were physicians during the feudal period of Japan, which were high status commoners and not of the samurai caste, but were allowed to wear a single blade as a mark of their station during the Tokugawa Era.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 6461847, member: 50895"] I'm fine with katana doing 1d8, the nodaichi at d10 is the equivalent of a bastard sword among Japanese swords. For some reasons some sword enthusiasts are convinced that katana was somehow superior to all other blades. While I agree it was a remarkable weapon and certainly well made, due to inferior metals and the apples and oranges way a katana is wielded versus a western blade, as well as the fact that the armor worn by opponents of katana wielders wore lacquer, silk chain and scale, as opposed to full metal suits of armor having a sharper blade was more effective to eastern armor versus western armor. Most western swords were not that sharp, so that they could survive a battle against a metal clad warrior. A katana versus full metal armor would chip and dull quickly. My parents possess a 16th century katana as a family heirloom, as well as several katana and wakizashi blades only (the handles haven't survived). Though my mother's side were physicians during the feudal period of Japan, which were high status commoners and not of the samurai caste, but were allowed to wear a single blade as a mark of their station during the Tokugawa Era. [/QUOTE]
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