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You gone goofed up.

So I'm looking through equipment and then I see the stats for the various spears available. Notably, I find that the Short Spear, Spear, and Pike all do different amounts of damage. Perhaps you should make them all do the same damage but instead give them different amounts of reach? The whole point of a spear is its reach, after all, and separating different types of spears by their reach rather than their damage would be something unique for that class of weapon. Before I talk about halberds, what's 'R'? I've read through the PDF but I couldn't find mention of what it does. What's CR?

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While I'm talking about weapons, I think you should include the katana as a weapon.

Japanese smiths spend years working on a single katana and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest blades known to mankind.

Katanas are thrice as sharp as European swords and thrice as hard for that matter too. Anything a longsword can cut through, a katana can cut through better. I'm pretty sure a katana could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple vertical slash.

Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering Japan? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Samurai and their katanas of destruction. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the katanas first because their killing power was feared and respected.

Here is the stat block I propose for katanas:
Damage: 5d6
Type: Sword
Weight: 2.5 units
Cost: 20N
CR: 4
Notes: 2H, Severing, +1000 damage to anything that's not another katana
MH: 26297

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