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Ok guys, what do you have to say about nodachis?
>>29509730http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySQratOnwk
>>29509730Sweet katana, I got one commissioned just like it
Your money would be better spent on getting 50 dudes with spears. T
>>29509730Man, I'm pissed there's no way to play Sephiroth in d20. Maybe if I play a Half-Celestial Half-Draconic Lichtouched Vampire Elan Psion20/Fighter20/Sorcerer20 I might come close... but the nodachi is so underpowered it isn't even funny.Maybe this:Masamune, Ego 20 (only Sephiroth can weild et), a +6 nodachi katana that deals 3d20+str+int+wis+cha modifier damage and bypasses all DR
>>29509840But my kingdom is already full of spears.
>>29509921There is no such thing as too much spears. If your wife is carrying a spear, take a new wife. If your child is carrying a spear, make more kids. It's not rocket science. It's spear science!
>>29509844Why would you...WANT to play Sephiroth?
>>29509949>>Not dual-wielding spears
>>29509730They're ceremonial art objects. And the whole thing is only 3 feet long.
I'd rather just roll with a katana
>>29510007How very mainstream of you.
>>29509730>Ok guys, what do you have to say about nodachis?Great way to show off how good a smith you are, and the gods love them.But IRL it's a weapon only a Basara would wield.
....a CURVED sword? HA! Fag
>>29510024You mean practical
In all seriousness, like everything that came out of japan but yari, just another ceremonial weapon.
>>29510052>>Katana>>Practicalhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ozOvZKjbyA
Needs about 70% more handle.
>>29510074>swords in general>ceremonialLook, I'm not about to hate on polearms here, but peasant pls.
>>29510046Say that to my face and not over the internet.
>>29510089You might want to find something in better condition to threaten someone with
>>29510075Yeah its practical versus using a nodachi, get over your katana hate boner.
>>29509970Hey now, don't diss Sephiroth. He gets a lot of hate for inspiring shitty knock-offs, but the dude was actually a really well done character, it's not his fault everyone apes him mindlessly and he comes out looking edgy for it.
>>29510113Someone's defensive. If you really wanted to use a practical weapon from Japan you would use a Yari.
>>29510104Fine. Cower before my Shamshir!
>>29510130FF7 was not a good game or story.It got worse when the creators kept going back to it.
>>29510158Oh, I know FF7 was terrible. Everything post VI(Except for 9) was just a constant slide downhill. But Sephiroth was a well-written character, with a good arc, and real motivation. At least, in VII. don't know what they did to him in the spin-offs, but it was probably nothing good.
>>29510075If those were knights with throbbing zweihanders, you would get the same result.
>>29510088I've never said about swords in general. It's just, well, japanese swords are beautiful trinkets with very situational uses at best.
>>29510157Not curved enough.
Sure is curved swords in here.
They are badass as fuck, and, even if a naginata would have done their job probably better, well.. They're still heavier, and a lot more cooler. And, heh, Kikuchiyo.
>>29510182No one claimed otherwise, are you that much of a weeb that this is your kneejerk reaction to seeing mighty samurai gunned down by a real weapon?
>>29510145Newsflash, son: Spears are not universally useful. And for those times, you have swords.
>>29510236Did anyone actually use that against anything but some really uppity wheat stalks?
Yeah. Swords are indubitabely useful. And it's not a filthy peasant weapon.
>not wearing your sword like a belt when you aren't slicing dudes upI do not believe your swords are sufficiently curved.
>>29509844Not enough, It should shoot lazers at least. And bears. And bears that shoot lazers.
>>29510440Go prance about somewhere else boy, real men are talking.
>>29509991Nodachi have five to seven feet of blade, what are you talking about?>>29510074And the bow. And every other polearm besides the spear. And the katana. And the wakizashi. And the tanto, jitte... and... what else is there besides all that?>>29510145Or a naginata. Japan only started to favour the yari after it got guns and needed pikes.
>>29510376Uppity peasants and church-robbers.
>>29509991You mean the wakizashi?
>>29509984>not fighting with a 7ft long duelling spear while hurling javelins from an enormous sack on your backStep it up sempai
>>29510481Say that to my face and not over the internet.
>>29510074>naginata>yumi>tanegashima>tanto>ceremonialI don't think so
>all this ironic shitposting>probably some not ironic, but i'll pretend it's ironic for my sanity's sake/tg/, you're better than that.
>No best weapon of all time ever
>>29510181>disliking VIIIPlease die.
>>29510705I made improvements.
I'm sure nodachi are great for killing horses, but I'd rather use a dadao
>>29509984>tfw dude who dual-wields spears is series' second biggest punching bag>not even the first
>>29510733>not a zhanmandao
>>29510730And that's what's glorious about the club. It's just so versatile!
>tfw there are no WW2 movies depicting chinese and japanese troops going at each other with dao, katana, bayonets and a few thousand years worth of hatred
>>29509730Considering that katanas are pretty much about as good as any other sword and a nodachi is just a big-ass katana, I'd imagine it'd be about as good as a big-ass any-other-kind of sword.
>>29510769of course not, that would be silly.they did that in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
>>29510743>not a quandao
>>29510738>implying lancers ever do well
>>29510769>and a few thousand years worth of hatredTheir conflict was younger than the eternal enmity between the Third Republic and the German Reich.
>>29509730>hard to craft (240)>not better damage than other 2 handers>-35 ini>LARGE.it's shit. Mostly because hard to craft AND large.
>>29510859>Yukimura>E luckit makes too much senseS+ endurance, though.
>>29510859
>>29510354But spears really are universally useful.
>>29512462This is where you support your claim. Bait alone won't cut it here. Pun intended.
>>29512548No, wait, if the premise is that spears ARE universally useful, doesn't it mean that you need to give scenarios where they aren't? But if you insist:Places where spear isn't appropriate: Modern times. Because everytime else it was either spear or bayonet that was the most useful for plethora of situations.Bayonet is really a spear with added gun.
>>29512692Scratch that. Modern times have spears too. Since we still use bayonets.
>>29512716>Since we still use bayonets.only if you're british
>>29512787Or russian.
>>29512798Or finnish.
>>29512813Or Irish surprisingly.
>>29512787You're better off using the bayonet of a bullpup as a combat knife.
>>29512267Well, looks like spearwielders always get the short end of the stick