Japanese Katana (3.5e Equipment)

Katana

Martial One-Handed Critical: x3 Range Increment: — Type: Slashing Hardness: 12
Size	Cost1	Damage	Weight1	hp
Fine	*	1	*	1
Diminutive	*	1d2	*	1
Tiny	*	1d4	*	1
Small	150	1d6	1 lb.	2
Medium	150	1d8	2 lb.	4
Large	300	2d6	4 lb.	8
Huge	*	3d6	*	16
Gargantuan	*	4d6	*	32
Colossal	*	6d6	*	64
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

Material	Average	Masterwork1	Hardness	hp	Special
Steel	150 gp	450 gp	12	4	—
Adamantine	—	3,035 gp	20	6	Bypass hardness less than 20
Deep Crystal	—	1,035 gp	10	5	Psionic
Mundane Crystal	—	450 gp	8	4	No rusting, not metal
Darkwood	—	n/a	n/a	n/a	—
Iron, Cold	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	—
Mithral	—	2,035 gp	15	5	1/2 weight
Silver, Alchemical	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	—
Masterwork weapons have a +1 enhancement bonus on attack rolls.

See Also

• Japanese Jintachi (3.5e Equipment)

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