How to get the most number of attacks with one katana?
the DM`s rules are: all official 3.5ed books, no setting-based stuff, no psionic.
Character special rules: no armor (other than cloth, bracers or like), only one katana at time (i wonder if i can use TWF with unarmed strike?), any alignment.
A challenge, my optima-brothers! XD
My suggestions:
For as much attacks as possible against more opponents: half-fey binder 3 (paimon bound). Simply take your move to fly over opponents, attacking each one you pass by. With enemies nicely lined up for you, 12 x 3 = 36 attacks should be possible without any problems. Increase speed to increase number of possible attacks, use potion of invisibility to avoid aoo.
For as much attacks as possible against one opponent: wraithstrike + avalance of blades (tome of battle), simply slash away untill oponent is dead (best uses with a manouver that lets you reroll a failed attacks, and of course power attack).
==Aelryinth
You can use an unarmed strike as an off-hand weapon. Additionally, the snap kick feat from Tome of Battle gives you an extra unarmed attack if you take a -2 penalty on all your attacks.
Haste or a speed weapon gives you an extra attack.
Warblades, from Tome of Battle, have several maneuvers available to them that provide extra attacks. Notably, time stands still provides two full attacks as a full-round action, and raging mongoose provides two extra attacks per weapon (to a maximum of two weapons) per full attack for one round.
The whirling frenzy rage variant, from Unearthed Arcana, gives you an extra attack if you take a -2 on all your attacks.
The slashing flurry feat, from Player's Handbook II, gives you an extra attack with a slashing weapon if you take a -5 on all your attacks.
Also Katana was chosen because of character`s oath to his master that he cannot wield any other pathetic and impure weapon.
So far i found only this:
Slashing Flurry, 10 lvl of Dervish PrC, +1 Speed Katana, offhand unarmed strikes (1lvl of monk maybe?)
and my build is something like this:
Human Fighter 1/ Monk 1/ Fighter 5/ Dervish 10/ Tempest 4/
1: EWP (Bastard Sword), Weapon Focus (Bastard Sword), Dodge, Mobility, TWF
2: Stunning Blow
3: Combat Expertise, Versatile Unarmed Strike
5: Weapon Specialization (Bastard Sword)
6: Sense Weakness or Ancestral Weapon
7: Improved TWF
9: Weapon Mastery (Slashing)
12: Weapon Focus (Unarmed)
15: Slashing Flurry
18: Greater TWF
and +1 speed katana
For weak enemies he can use TWF, for stronger he can wield 2handed, and if disarmed he is still capable to kick **** with slashing unarmed. Still feel weak without Mage Slayer and Power Attack branch... and now i wonder if TWF worth its feats?
Concerning TWF...from the RP side of what you said your char is I don't see him using anything but his "pure" weapon katana. Plus without ToB you cant take the superior unarmed strike feat to get you better damage with your Unarmed strike so your damage will be a little negligible. Also consider not using weapon focus unarmed and do whirwind instead and go for the weapon master class from sword and fist. Hope this helps a bit!
Well with 1lvl monk my unarmed have 1d6 just as a short sword(or wakidzashi), and with such restrictions its just not so bad.
Also lvl 3 Tempest allow to use WF with your offhand weapon, so i`d better place Two-Weapon Rend(PH2) as lvl 12 feat and do additional 1d6+strX1.5 dmg if both weapons hit
Still Whirlwind will hit once against each opponent in reach, and its actually wont benefit much without weapon master prc. And at 20lvl this guy will have about 10 attacks with katana and 8 attacks with his fists against whirlwind`s 2-9 attacks with katana.
And if there are any way to make katana monk weapon ill be glad to hear that, as well as totally another ways to get extra attacks with katana
Also Thrall to Demonogorgon with his Dual Actions and long arms(for which whirlwind attack will be more empowering) can be decent, though it require few feats(dont know where to put them in) and sneak attack(Ronin prc) to enter, and also its chaotic evil (so the character must start as lawful evil and eventually become a psychotic maniac later... again Ronin prc)
Just remembered a movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfTWYP4bE28 so id also get some Perform (String instruments) lol
Also, if the DM thinks ToB is overpowered....
Show him the tier system!
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The most overpowered classes are things like Wizard, Cleric, Druid, and the most underpowered classes are things like Fighter, Monk, Paladin. Tome of Battle is a happy medium...
Also, are you doing Katana as Bastard Sword, Long Sword, Scimitar, Saber, Falcion, Great Scimitar, or Greatsword?
I personally like seeing it's stats as a Great Scimitar from Sandstorm.
Officialy katana is a masterwork bastard sword. So ill stick to that choice. It might be silly, but DM wont allow to RP great scimitar as katana.
Sorry if this has been mentioned before but if you were to somehow get a nice crit range (*cough*Disciple of Dispator*cough*) Roundabout Kick from Complete Warrior would give you more attacks on a critical hit at the same bonus to hit and it receives your unarmed damage.
its another 5 feats to fullfill (Expertise wtf is that?!) and at least 4 or 8 levels to replace for a chance of double damage +1d12 only with UNARMED, not katana, (so max crit threat 17-20) and also that will make x4 number of regular attacks in round down to x2. I think that is not a good choice since chance is low, only for offhand weapon, and price too high .
As to Expertise, it's just Combat Expertise. They renamed it for 3.5; that's in the 3.5 update booklet, incidentally.
A fanged ring (Dragon Magic 101) provides improved unarmed strike and improved natural attack for 10,000 gp.
Interestingly, D20 Modern lists a katana as a two-handed weapon that deals 2d6 slashing damage (critical 19-20/*2).
Monk 1 lvl gives imp. unarmed, makes it 1d6, stunning fist, WIS-to-AC, as well as flurry of strikes if happens to become totally unarmed...
But still looking for placing katana as monk special weapon... I think I saw it somewhere.
a bit of wiki: katana is a japanese bastard sword that could be wielded with one hand (frequently on horse) as well as with both hands (on foot).
The unorthodox flurry feat, from Dragon Compendium, allows you to flurry with a single selected light weapon. The shou disciple prestige class, form Unapproachable East, allows you to flurry with any light weapon at 3rd level and any weapon at 5th level. Unfortunately, the first book is not published by Wizards of the Coast, and the second is from the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.
A fanged ring also provides 1d6 unarmed damage. Improved natural attack increases unarmed strike damage as though you are one size category larger. A monk's belt provides 1d8 unarmed damage and wisdom + 1 to AC for 13,000 gp. Wearing both the belt and ring provides 2d6 unarmed damage. This is something to consider even if you do take monk.
Nothing you said following that link is found in the article. In particular, I wonder if you may have misread backsword as bastard sword. (I did initially.) Also, Wikipedia describes longswords as averaging a foot longer than katanas. There isn't that much agreement between D&D sword definitions and Wikipedia sword definitions. I would like to point out that longswords can be used in one or both hand at the wielder's discretion as well.
The unorthodox flurry feat, from Dragon Compendium, allows you to flurry with a single selected light weapon. The shou disciple prestige class, form Unapproachable East, allows you to flurry with any light weapon at 3rd level and any weapon at 5th level. Unfortunately, the first book is not published by Wizards of the Coast, and the second is from the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.
A fanged ring also provides 1d6 unarmed damage. Improved natural attack increases unarmed strike damage as though you are one size category larger. A monk's belt provides 1d8 unarmed damage and wisdom + 1 to AC for 13,000 gp. Wearing both the belt and ring provides 2d6 unarmed damage. This is something to consider even if you do take monk.
Nothing you said following that link is found in the article. In particular, I wonder if you may have misread backsword as bastard sword. (I did initially.) Also, Wikipedia describes longswords as averaging a foot longer than katanas. There isn't that much agreement between D&D sword definitions and Wikipedia sword definitions. I would like to point out that longswords can be used in one or both hand at the wielder's discretion as well.
oh that was it... too bad cant use it. Though how can i make katana a light weapon? monkey grip?
Also if count katana as a masterwork longsword i could use Whirling Steel Strike but its from Ebberon.
Wiki article puts long, bastard and great sword under long sword category... though they all obviously differ. The russian wiki article says katana is a bastard sword and totally not a backsword, while english version says is just a japanese sabre. Though as for one and two handed wielding katana is a bastard sword (with longer grip for 2 hands) - actually a 2handed weapon with 1handed option.
The rules of D&D say a longsword can be used in two hands for 1.5 times strength to damage. If longswords don't have at least a hand-and-a-half grip, how are you holding it when you use it that way?
So the updated version:
Human Fighter 1/ Monk 2/ Fighter 3/ Dervish 1/ Ronin 1/ Thrall to Demonogorgon 4/ Dervish 9/
1: EWP (Bastard Sword), Weapon Focus (Bastard Sword), Dodge, Mobility, TWF
2: Stunning Blow
3: Combat Expertise, Combat Reflexes
4: Willing Deformity
6: Thrall to Demon (Demonogorgon), Versatile Unarmed Strike
9: Weapon Specialization (Bastard Sword), Weapon Mastery (Slashing)
12: Improved TWF, Robilar’s Gambit
15: Slashing Flurry
18: Greater TWF
+1 speed katana
If I properly calculated it makes 36 attacks on first round, 18 on second, and 9 thereasfter. Do cleave(while in dance) or great cleave (thousand cuts). As well as while he performing his dervish dance he can forgo 4 AC, recive additional 4 damage if hit, and hit all who try to hit him as AoO (kendo style lol, he can also do it whenever he want, but while dancing you can forget about tumbling and do even more damage).
Once a day can longer his arms and gain reach 10'.
Also updated version has evasion and +1d6 sneak attack.
Death Knight template will be realy awsome for this evil samurai.
just counted: its about 500dmg in first round, 250 in second, and 125 each next, not counting AoO and cleaves... it even cant kill a great wyrm with one round pfff... worthless
==Aelryinth
Yeah, that's how I've always pictured it. That would suggest a longsword has a hand-and-a-half grip and a bastard sword has a full two-hand grip. That's why I've always thought the description of a bastard sword as a hand-and-a-half sword is strange.
because traditionally a bastard sword is a hand and half sword...hence the bastard child of a two handed sword (such as a claymore) and a normal 1 handed sword (english broadsword). Traditional "longswords" of the diferent regions were usually 1 handed swords but depending on the fighting style of the region would depend if you used it 1 handed (ex. southern english and french with shield) or 2 handed (ex. the saxxons or the earlier eastern franks). The hilt though of a "longsword" is usually only long enough for a 1 handed single grip or a 2 handed over and under grip. Also some regions featured largers pommels that could aid in the gripping of the sword with both hands.
Hey, I'm going to request you stop using claymore as an example of two handed weapons. Greatswords are greatswords. Claymores come in all sizes...most claymores would actually fall under the definitions of arming swords, being one-handed weapons, often with ornate basket hilts. The Scottish Horse-cutting sword is indeed a greatsword, but claymores are more akin to broadswords and longswords.
The iconic greatswords are those wielded by the German and Swiss Pike Companies of the 1500's. There's a reason we tend to swing the term zweihanders around here!
==Aelryinth
Still the rules are: no HD and max LA+2 for race, only one katana, no armor, as much attacks as light speed can dream.
Last time it was 36 strikes on first round (its about 6 attacks per second), i belive it could be even more...
p.S. are there any list of things that grant additional attacks?
