What are the stats for a standard katana?

[wizardneedsfood]

Katana were primarily two-handed weapons. The standard style for using a katana was focused on 7 or maybe 8 cuts. The main idea was one-hit, one-kill.

As for the bastard swords, what we called bastard swords were really hand and a half swords. And historical longswords were two-handed fencing weapons.

 

[daTim]

http://www.realultimatepower.net/

Your source for any ninja and or katana related ideas.

 

[Aaron L]

I like this rule. I have Asian-obsessed relatives that think the katana was "all that". *rolls eyes*

Tell your relatives that a well made pattern welded Viking sword was at least as well made as any katana, several hundred years before katana had developed from the straight Chinese swords that the Japanese copied them from. That should send them into convulsions, as well as being true.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Rules thread.

 

[Darklone]

Tell your relatives that a well made pattern welded Viking sword was at least as well made as any katana, several hundred years before katana had developed from the straight Chinese swords that the Japanese copied them from. That should send them into convulsions, as well as being true.

Nearly the same quality. Katanas suffered from the bad steel quality in Japan, so the thousandfold folding and other stuff from your typical katana myth was necessary to achieve comparable steel quality to western blades.

Still, some katanas show exceptional quality. Most katana fans simply forget that European swords can show the same quality

 

[sledged]

And you are both forgeting episode #38 The Thunder-Cutter where a samurai named Hachi-Man wields the mighty katana "Thunder-Cutter" against Lion-O. The Sword of Omens and the Thunder-Cutter refuse to battle each other, resulting in a draw.

Excalibur kicked the Sword of Omens' tail, and it would make Thunder-Cutter its "female canine".

Did anyone else think that Thundercats, Silverhawks, and Tigersharks were the same with different animal themes? And yet I'd gladly own them all on DVD.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Would you *please* watch your tone? It's "lovechildsword", or one-and-a-half-handed sword, I don't want to hear the other word again (Eric's Grandmother probably just has a seizure because of you guys)

 

[wizardneedsfood]

Would you *please* watch your tone? It's "lovechildsword", or one-and-a-half-handed sword, I don't want to hear the other word again (Eric's Grandmother probably just has a seizure because of you guys)

Thanks, that made my day, seriously.

 

[noeuphoria]

Aren't we forgetting aboud Cloud's sword in FF7? It seems like that would be more uber than a katana. Assuming of course, one could wield it, since it looks like someone just cut a big sword-shaped object from 6" thick steel.

 

[Black Knight Irios]

Ah, someone mentions FF7, then we should not forget Sephiroth's Uber-Katana, I think it was called Muramasa or Masamune, I wonder.
Or Rurouni Kenshin, featuring Sanosuke with his Zanbato. Or those who like Beat'em Ups Siegfried from Soulblade/Soulcalibur I+II but it's almost the same as Cloud's in FF7.
So what was that all about? -Ah stats of a Katana. To say it simple it it the non-plus-ultra in all things you can imagine!
Or the equivalent to a masterwork b*st*rdsword, that costs 400GP. Even more expensive than a masterwork b*st*rdsword, there must be something special about it!