Editing Katanas are Underpowered in d20 (section)

== Longswords are Overpowered in d20 ==
That's it. I'm sick of all this "Sensibly Sized Bladed Weapon" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Longswords deserve much worse than that. Much, much worse than that. I should know what i'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine Longsword in Germany for $1 (Thats about 120 Yen) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can barely cut sheets of paper with my Longsword. 

European smiths spend about a month working on a single Longsword and fold it no times in order to create an unwieldy lump of metal.

Longswords are a third as sharp as Japanese weapons and are a third as hard too. I'm pretty sure a Longsword would fail to do any sort of damage to a armour wearing samurai.

Do you know why Japan never bothered conquering medieval Europe? That's right, it would had been far too easy fighting the western knights and their metal clubs of failure. Even in World War II, Europeans stopped equipping their armies with Longswords altogether because of how little they worked.

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

(One-Handed Simple Weapon) <br>
1d4 Damage <br>
x2 Crit <br>
-2 to hit and damage <br>
Can never count as Masterwork

(Two-Handed Simple Weapon) <br>
1d6 Damage <br>
x2 Crit <br>
-1 to hit and damage <br>
Can never count as Masterwork
 
Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of Longswords in real life, don't you think?
tl;dr = Longswords need to do much less in d20, see my new stat block.