Japanese Katana (3.5e Equipment)

Katana
Martial One-Handed
Critical: x3
Range Increment: —
Type: Slashing
Hardness: 12
SizeCost1DamageWeight1hp
Fine*1*1
Diminutive*1d2*1
Tiny*1d4*1
Small1501d61 lb.2
Medium1501d82 lb.4
Large3002d64 lb.8
Huge*3d6*16
Gargantuan*4d6*32
Colossal*6d6*64
  1. The SRD only gives a means to determine costs and weights of weapons for Large and Small versions based on the Medium weapons. Any other supplied values are the author's best determination.

The Japanese katana is a very unique blade, dissimilar to many common European swords. It is much shorter and lighter than a longsword, sporting a prominently curved blade, and only one sharp edge. Due to the unusually light nature of the blade, anyone with the weapon finesse feat would still be allowed to use their dexterity modifier instead of the strength modifier to hit. Katanas are very light weapons designed to quickly dispatch lightly armored combatants, but not people in heavy armor. When attacking a target with medium armor, you suffer a 12 penalty to hit, and a -2 penalty to hit against targets with heavy armor.

Enhancements

Katana Material Enhancements
MaterialAverageMasterwork1HardnesshpSpecial
Steel150 gp450 gp124—
Adamantine—3,035 gp206Bypass hardness less than 20
Deep Crystal—1,035 gp105Psionic
Mundane Crystal—450 gp84No rusting, not metal
Darkwood—n/an/an/a—
Iron, Coldn/an/an/an/a—
Mithral—2,035 gp1551/2 weight
Silver, Alchemicaln/an/an/an/a—
  1. Masterwork weapons have a +1 enhancement bonus on attack rolls.

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