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Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 20:43:28 No.8228552 [Reply] [Original]

If nothing can cut through a katana then why didn't the Japanese just wear armor made out of katanas?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 20:46:56 No.8228561 Because then the opposing side could just make a katana out of the equivalent number of katanae and defeat them. Use your head, Anonymous.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 20:46:56 No.8228560 inb4 armor made of genitals

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 20:48:56 No.8228564 A katana can cut through anything is not the same as nothing can cut a katana.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 20:51:26 No.8228571 File: 64 KB, 400x236, 1311842281889.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Can you cut everything with your armor made out of katanas? Why would you need katanas then?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 20:54:28 No.8228574 >>8228564 Yes it is, because if you try to cut through a katana with something the katana will cut through it first.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 20:54:57 No.8228576 >>8228574 Two katanas will cut eachother dumbfuck.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 20:55:28 No.8228577 >>8228571 +1 Reach.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 20:55:57 No.8228580 you have no idea how hard I just laughed because of this thread. Good job janonp

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 20:56:27 No.8228583 >>8228576 No because they cancel each other out. It's like lightsabers, see.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:00:57 No.8228594 Same reason there's no diamond armor

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:02:57 No.8228598 File: 13 KB, 175x287, url.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Would you wear an armor made of game boys?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:03:57 No.8228606 >>8228598 Only if there was an immediate threat of being attacked by gameboy-wielding assailants.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:05:27 No.8228612 File: 142 KB, 1611x1076, 1322587672106.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why would you wear armor made out of katanas if european swords are superior?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:06:28 No.8228614 >>8228594 And why is that?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:06:28 No.8228616 >>8228612 Because the katanas are more aerodynamic, which means you will be able to move faster than if you had armor made of european swards.

Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:07:28 No.8228618 [DELETED]

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>>8228612
That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Bastard Sword" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Katanas deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.

I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine katana in Japan for 2,400,000 Yen (that's about $20,000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid steel with my katana.

Japanese smiths spend years working on a single katana and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest blades known to mankind.

Katanas are thrice as sharp as European swords and thrice as hard for that matter too. Anything a longsword can cut through, a katana can cut through better. I'm pretty sure a katana could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple vertical slash.

Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering Japan? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Samurai and their katanas of destruction. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the katanas first because their killing power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? Katanas are simply the best sword that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the d20 system. Here is the stat block I propose for Katanas:

(One-Handed Exotic Weapon)
1d12 Damage
19-20 x4 Crit
+2 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork

(Two-Handed Exotic Weapon)
2d10 Damage
17-20 x4 Crit
+5 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork

Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of Katanas in real life, don't you think?

tl;dr = Katanas need to do more damage in d20, see my new stat block.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:08:27 No.8228620 File: 4 KB, 74x126, TRYS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Everything in this thread. You are not ingenious guys, stop trying.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:09:27 No.8228623 >>8228620 I'm having fun and nobody can stop me!

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:10:28 No.8228627 >>8228620 I am ingenious; your perception is flawed!

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:11:27 No.8228629 Don't be stupid. If you put on katana armor you'd be sliced to ribbons.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:12:27 No.8228633 >>8228629 no no no, the catanas are facing outwards.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:13:27 No.8228636 File: 18 KB, 283x400, skinarmor.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8228629 Not if you replace your skin with katanas.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:17:57 No.8228647 What if my body is made out of katanas?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:18:28 No.8228649 >>8228647 Then you are Emiya Shirou.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:19:28 No.8228651 >>8228647 immortality.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:23:57 No.8228664 >>8228649 More like a weeaboo version of Shirou. Like... a fat neckbeard American with Uesugi Kenshin as his servant.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:24:58 No.8228668 What's that above his eyes supposed to be?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:25:28 No.8228673 >>8228649 What if my body is made out of european swords?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:31:57 No.8228699 File: 138 KB, 500x666, 1259971930870.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What if you punch yourself in the head while your body was made out of katanas?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:32:58 No.8228705 >>8228699 Last time someone did that, no one lived to tell the result.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 12, 2011 21:42:59 No.8228743 >>8228598 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCnWWSbtinM

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