Katana, Variant (3.5e Equipment)

Katanas are very sharp curved sword. Similar to sabers, Katanas only have one edge. Katanas are devastating against unarmored opponents, but they lose potency against heavily armored opponents. Katanas take a penalty to Damage against enemies with Medium or Heavy Armor (Mithral or similar effect) armor count as they original category to determine if the Katana take a penalty or not.). Against Medium Armor Katanas have -1 to damage, against Heavy Armor the penalty rises to -2.

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Katana

Exotic Light Critical: 19-20 x2 Range Increment: — Type: Slashing Hardness: 12
Size	Cost^1	Damage	Weight^1	hp
Fine	*	1	*	1
Diminutive	*	1	*	1
Tiny	*	1d2	*	1
Small	200	1d8	3	3
Medium	200	1d10	5	7
Large	350	2d10	7	14
Huge	*	3d10	*	28
Gargantuan	*	8d4	*	56
Colossal	*	10d4	*	112
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.

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