Magdar has a kertig katana that he bought at an auction. There is a katana with some cambrinth in it that I believe actually works. Not sure who has it though. Magdar's is a really sweet looking and apping weapon.


Giant Mosk trampled into the room! You fall over stunned!

When mine was made swappable, all were made swappable. Send me an email if you want more info about mine.


Juggernaut Magdar Bluefletch of M'Riss

www.play.net/dr/info/guilds/barb.asp
and I quote:
Weapon Forging
Anyone can forge a crude weapon, but only barbarians can produce legendary quality weapons sought after by all.

You tap a black ironwood katana sheath bound by thick damite wire that you are holding.
The sheath is comprised of lacquered ironwood slats which have been carefully fitted together and bound by thick damite wire. Green silk ribbons twist in a criss-crossing pattern leaving small diamond-shaped gaps where small ivory dragons are emblazoned.

You tap a cambrinth-hilted katana with a finely honed kertig-alloy blade that you are holding.
The cambrinth has been dyed black and wrapped with a thin damite wire to protect the hilt. Overlapping the wire is a thick layer of green silk ribbon that wraps in a criss-crossing pattern. The ribbon is knotted at the cap of the hilt, which remsembles a curled dragon, and the loose ends dangle freely.

A cambrinth-hilted katana with a finely honed kertig-alloy blade is a heavy edged type weapon.

You are certain that it could do:
low puncture damage
great slice damage
fair impact damage

You are certain that the katana is reasonably balanced and is fairly suited to gaining extra attack power from your strength.

You are certain that the kertig-alloy katana is very strong, and is in pristine condition.

The kertig-alloy katana is made with metal.
You are certain that the kertig-alloy katana weighs exactly 40 stones.

A cambrinth-hilted katana with a finely honed kertig-alloy blade is a two-handed edged type weapon.

You are certain that it could do:
fair puncture damage
severe slice damage
moderate impact damage

You are certain that the katana is reasonably balanced and is reasonably suited to gaining extra attack power from your strength.

You focus your magical senses on a cambrinth-hilted katana with a finely honed kertig-alloy blade.
The kertig-alloy katana is dim, almost magically null. A very faint pattern indicates its readiness to absorb Lunar energy.

It also sometimes makes sounds when you attack.

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A Large Mastterm's group just went north.

[Volentri] "does anybody has any idea what a group of Mastterm is?"
[Worrclan] "Sounds like a dog of sorts."
[Worrclan] "Where do you see them?"
[Volentri] "nevermind,, false alarm"

Mastterm, how much mana does it hold?

Katanas are only bought, aquired and bidded on at certain auctions I thought there were three...


Legionnaire Deagar,
Order of the Dragon Shield Council Member

10s or thousands of plat I believe... and I doubt we will EVER see common models...


Legionnaire Deagar,
Order of the Dragon Shield Council Member

because, don't ask me why, but the reason is just Because...


Legionnaire Deagar,
Order of the Dragon Shield Council Member

>So guessing these two are the only Katana's in the game right now and no current plans on anymore being released anytime soon if ever?

Actually, I think there are three in the hands of players. Magdar owns two of them.


- Rayje Bledd, Speaker for the Order of the Black Fox
http://www.geocities.com/elanthianblackfox/

<<Times like this that I always want to ask....what the hell?

A common model would kind of defeat the purpose, no?

Besides, if the stats were any lower for a "common model", it'd basically be a normal steel bastard sword with a different name. Here's mine for comparison, normal steel, 36 stones:

A bastard sword is a heavy edged type weapon.

You are certain that it could do:
poor puncture damage
great slice damage
low impact damage

You are certain that the sword is reasonably balanced and is fairly suited to gaining extra attack power from your strength.

You are certain that the bastard sword is moderately strong, and is in pristine condition.

The bastard sword is made with metal.
The bastard sword feels pretty light.
You are certain that the bastard sword is worth exactly 10000 lirums.
Roundtime: 8 seconds.


A bastard sword is a two-handed edged type weapon.

You are certain that it could do:
low puncture damage
severe slice damage
fair impact damage

You are confident that the sword is reasonably balanced and is reasonably suited to gaining extra attack power from your strength.

You are certain that the bastard sword is moderately strong, and is in pristine condition.

The bastard sword is made with metal.
The bastard sword feels light.
You are certain that the bastard sword is worth exactly 10000 lirums.
Roundtime: 8 seconds.

Functionally, not a lot of room between this and a katana that weighs four stones more. And check out this bad boy (not mine, 48 stones, kertig):

A bastard sword is a heavy edged type weapon.

You are certain that it could do:
low puncture damage
severe slice damage
fair impact damage

You are certain that the sword is fairly balanced and is reasonably suited to
gaining extra attack power from your strength.

You are certain that the bastard sword is well constructed, and is in pristine
condition.

The bastard sword is made with metal.
You wonder if the bastard sword might weigh a few tens of stones.
You are certain that the bastard sword is worth exactly 1875 kronars.
Roundtime: 5 seconds.


A bastard sword is a two-handed edged type weapon.

You are certain that it could do:
low puncture damage
severe slice damage
moderate impact damage

You are certain that the sword is reasonably balanced and is well suited to
gaining extra attack power from your strength.

You are certain that the bastard sword is well constructed, and is in pristine
condition.

The bastard sword is made with metal.
You wonder if the bastard sword might weigh a few tens of stones.
You are certain that the bastard sword is worth exactly 1875 kronars.
Roundtime: 5 seconds.

I'd rather not have hundreds of renamed fluffy basties floating around.

You missed the point. 'The point' he reffered to was that there are not supposed to be katanas in the game. Ergo releasing a 'common model' would defeat the point of having one of the few, and having paid so much for something that should, theoretically, only have 1 or 2 relatives ever.

No one made them pay THAT MUCH money for it :P I don't think they should be restricted just to keep them valuable. Why shouldn't they go on the list of forgable items. Besides, it'd be nice to have something just as cliche as bastard swords to help make them less ubiquitous.

Dragonrealms takes place I think something like 10,000 years after GS4. GS4 now has Katanas so saying they are not historicly available is not true. The design could very easily still exist in some far away culture or at least as historical relics from those ages. All the katanas currently in the realms also happen to be made of kertig or glaes, so obviously if they ever are more commonly available they shouldn't be as good. Personally I think it should be lighter then a bastie though, and should have no puncture damage seeing as how you don't stab someone with a chisel pointed blade typically. The advantage I think they should have could be good balance and sharper edge with better construction vs. current weight caps, as in you could have one great slice at a lower stone weight then a bastie.

<<No one made them pay THAT MUCH money for it :P >>

Nonsense. They were auction items, and the only thing about them that qualified them as auction items, really, was the word "katana". Change "katana" to "bastard sword" and they're nothing special.

Whats the background on Slap Gauntlets?
-- X-Men

LMAO

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Violence does not lead to more violence. The truth is that ineffective, unfocused violence leads to more death. However fully thought through, well executed violence never leads to more violence because afterwards, the other guys are all dead.

<<Gnome gauntlets...sorry but they don't work like Wolverine's claws. One is an LE, the other is a shield and I believe the basis was some Gnomes being mechanically inclined.

Heh, I swear...any idea of having blades shoot out from your wrist in the past 18 years has been influenced in some way by the whole X-Men thing. Don't take me as some fanboy of it or something, but I've had people flat out tell me that when I was using my gauntlets in DR.

I think Comp bows where simaltaneously developed in boy Egypt and China.


Anyways, you can see the point though. There isn't IG background to alot of stuff, like several I listed. The game just has them and just put them in there for our enjoyment. Its kinda like if it existed in medieval times (and others not so much), then its possible to just throw it into the game.

Even then, alot of the things that do have IG history...its only a few lines of that. Its' not hard to say "Traders from the distan isle of Hullabaloo Canek Canek just opened up trading ports to the islands for there now famouse katanas!" Thats more then alot of other things get if your that picky. That or just put a "blueprint" in the loot code of some monster and let some high end guy find it, and then do an update for Katana's in the forge table.

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I was born once as a dying races last resort, I was strong.
I was born again as a weapon against friends, I was stronger.
I am now born from the dying wishes of my loved ones, and now I'm pissed.

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Boku wa ParaiDiansa ga daisuki desu.

Khukhri's would be cool.

And how in the world are Katana's "disruptive" and like putting a gun into the game? This is a medieval based fantasy game, Katana's fall into the weapon catagory (swords) and the time frame. And you say their is no background to a Katana? There isn't one for most of the weapons! Whats the background of getting Crossbows, comp bows, broadswords, claymores, bastard swords, rapiers, throwing weapons, ballistas, catapults...on and on and on. Everyone one of these has a real world background.

The only point you have made here is you don't want people running around and acting like ninja's and samurai. I totally agree with you on that. Guess what though, it already happens...guys dressing up in all black and yelling weird stuff as they jump outa the shadows. Had to put up with other stupid stuff like whoever bought Galain shouting DragonBall Z crap when he casted spells. Ya its annoying, but having a type of blade isn't going to promote it anymore then what people are already doing.

You don't have people dressing up in kilts and trying to act like Scottish warriors cause they swing claymores? You don't (generally) have Paladins trying to act like Roman soldiers as they wield tower shields. Just cause your thinking of a stereotype doesn't mean everyone will abuse it.

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I was born once as a dying races last resort, I was strong.
I was born again as a weapon against friends, I was stronger.
I am now born from the dying wishes of my loved ones, and now I'm pissed.

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No, you're not human. Scottish are at least partly human.

I am --- Navak

Mosk you always continue to amaze me. Bust out the haggis and I'll get the bagpipes.


<<And an IG reasoning. Heavy weapons? Good for cutting through the metal armor most people wear. Rapiers? Good for gentleman elite who duel for honor, not go out and pillage the countryside. Crossbows? Also armor piercing. Longbows? Ditto, while not in the manner DR has them used, they did do it. Most of the western weapons were designed and used for penetrating heavy, solid, rigid, metal armor. Easter weaponry, for the far east, was mostly used to destroy lighter armor, since there is a significantly lower amount of ore in that region, ergo no abundance of metalic armors. Which is why I say the heavier weapons have an IG reasoning, but the further east you go, the less likely such weapons become, since elanthia seems to have no shortage of metal deposits, as every region has metal armor for sale, and an apparently unlimited supply of it.


We are talking about adding Katanas too the 2HE weapons, not making a new class. And the ore stuff is really really pushing it to try to come up with something. You dig down enough you can come up with weird logic, like that. If I wanted too I could write a thesis on why War Mages should be able to unbind existence by tampering with aether.
Even then you contradicting yourself by trying to say Katanas where used for non-metallic armors...last I checked those exist in DR, along with bone and cloth coming out soon.

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I was born once as a dying races last resort, I was strong.
I was born again as a weapon against friends, I was stronger.
I am now born from the dying wishes of my loved ones, and I'm pissed.

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Fine, here's an idea...

If/when the new races are introduced, give a funky, multi-syllabic and -consonanted name. within the rules of the new racial language, to a weapon that any student of Japanese weaponry would instantly recognize as being a katana. That way, those that wish for the functionality of a katana can have them, and those that feel that the actual name of the weapon prevents it from being in genre don't have their kilts tied in a twist about the whole thing.

Deal?

Now can we please just go back to discussing how really bloody awesome that weapon was? Please?

Amagaim; the player of,

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Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

it could LOOK like a katana if ya got it altered but could not use the word Katana... would still be a Bastard sword...


Legionnaire Deagar,
Order of the Dragon Shield Council Member