Editing Katanas are Underpowered in d20 (section)

== Dragonslayers are underpowered in d20 ==
That’s it. I’m sick of all this “Masterwork Bastard Sword” bullshit that’s going on in the d20 system right now. Dragonslayers deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.

I should know what I’m talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine Dragonslayer in a magical grimdark version of late medieval Italy for 600 innocents' souls (that’s about $20,000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid Apostles with my Dragonslayer.

Magical grimdark Italian smiths spend years working on a single Dragonslayer and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest blades known to Midland.

Dragonslayers are thrice as dull as European longswords and thrice as massive for that matter too. Anything a longsword can cut through, a Dragonslayer will smash into tiny pieces. I’m pretty sure a Dragonslayer could easily vivisect a hundred trolls raping cultists with a simple horizontal slash.

Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering magical grimdark medieval Europe? That’s right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined survivors of childhood rape and their Dragonslayers of destruction. Even in the Golden Age, Purple Rhino Knights targeted the men with the Dragonslayers first because their killing power was feared and respected.

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

(Two-Handed Exotic Weapon)

8d8 Damage
17-20 x4 Crit
+5 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork

Every swing creates an AOE arc 10' in front and to the sides of the wielder, rolling to hit for each ally/enemy in the AOE.

Swarms of tiny or smaller creatures caught in the AOE are instantly killed, automatic hit, no chance to dodge or save.

Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of Dragonslayers in real life, don’t you think?