Talk:Katana/@comment-213.226.151.123-20170903172753/@comment-978785-20170903222204

Yes, though keep in mind that they slowly become irrelevant when other magical weapons come into play. Add that on top that you have to specialize explicitly in them (versus scimitars/wakizashi/ninjato combined) and no BG:EE companions have proficiency with them, and even the non-magical variants are scarce, especially if you're not cheesing the exporting-importing them (and my bad, tutorial doesn't count, clarified that).

About the "Japanese" origin, I actually scrapped the whole note – while the weapons are clearly inspired by Japan in real life, there's not even such thing in Forgotten Realms lore-wise, and they are of different origin. They were basically copy-pasted from BGII, which probably explains why they don't break, but given their scarity, price and overpoweredness which basically puts the regular katana into magic weapon tier, that's actually welcome change IMO, though as far as lore goes, it's debatable – I saw the discussion about it somewhere on Beamdog forums I think.

At least it's good that someone reads these pages :). I took the liberty to update some more info while at it, so the page's body, while not ideal, hopefully looks a bit cleaner now.