Editing Katanas are Underpowered in d20 (section)

== 2-By-Swords are Underpowered in Cataclysm ==

That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Stick" bullshit that's going on in the Cataclysm: DDA system right now. 2-by-swords deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.

I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine 2-by-sword in my backyard for 0 Yen (that's about $0) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 minutes now. I can even cut slabs of solid butter with my 2-by-sword.

Guys with absolutely nothing to do spend minutes working on a single 2-by-sword and whittle it up to eighty-two or eighty-three times to produce the finest wooden blades known to mankind.

Two-by-swords are infinite times as sharp as sticks and just as hard for that matter too. Anything a stick can whack, a two-by-sword can better. I'm pretty sure a two-by-sword could easily bring tears to the eyes of a kid wearing a t-shirt and shorts with a simple vertical slash.

Ever wonder why suburban children never bothered conquering rural areas? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined forest hobo kids and their two-by-swords of destruction. Even in Neighborhood War II, River Street kidss targeted the Maple Street guys with the two-by-swords first because their whacking power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? two-by-swords are simply the best sword that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead system. Here is the stat block I propose for two-by-swords:

  {
    "type": "GENERIC",
    "id": "sword_wood",
    "symbol": "!",
    "color": "brown",
    "name": { "str": "2-by-sword" },
    "description": "The ultimate weapon of destruction.",
    "material": "wood",
    "volume": "1250 ml",
    "weight": "600 g",
    "bashing": 42,
    "cutting": 11,
    "to_hit": 27,
    "flags": [ "SHEATH_SWORD" ],
    "techniques": [ "WBLOCK_1" ]
  },

Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of 2-by-swords in real life, don't you think?

tl;dr = Two-by-swords need to do more damage in Cataclysm DDA, see my new stat block.