One of the things I've always wanted for FEP is a Samurai Class. What would be unique is that 'preferred weapon' would be different for the genders. In real history the male smaurai used the katana(sword) while the female samurai(they existed!) preferred the naginata(spear). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naginata
For FEP+ and if it can be done, the skills for the Samurai Class can be the same however if a character is Male a sword will be required for Skills that depend on a certain weapon(sword) and if Female the weapon type requirement will be Spear/Polearms.

I'm trying to play as the monk. it would be nice if his skills would allow him to use 2H greathammers. the mod adds "bo staff" as a great hammer. Yet there are no specific polearms for this mod.

Originally posted by Dreklore:

I'm trying to play as the monk. it would be nice if his skills would allow him to use 2H greathammers. the mod adds "bo staff" as a great hammer. Yet there are no specific polearms for this mod.

I've asked TorchModders (who will handle some bugs and easy requests) to consider this change.

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Originally posted by Graeystone:

One of the things I've always wanted for FEP is a Samurai Class. What would be unique is that 'preferred weapon' would be different for the genders. In real history the male smaurai used the katana(sword) while the female samurai(they existed!) preferred the naginata(spear). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naginata
For FEP+ and if it can be done, the skills for the Samurai Class can be the same however if a character is Male a sword will be required for Skills that depend on a certain weapon(sword) and if Female the weapon type requirement will be Spear/Polearms.

I wrote this to TorchModders on Discord:

Originally posted by steffire3:

As you may have read: There was a request to represent the fact that Male Samurai liked Katana (Swords) and Female Samurai liked Naginata (Polearms).
I've been wondering how to edit the Kensei (2 Handed Sword Master) to represent this and tonight it came to me.

Change the starting weapons for the Genders at the Selection Screen. The Kensei Class description is lacking anyway so writing an added Samurai weapon connection is reasonable. (If I needed Elite Samurai then I would hire Kensei).
Change the Kensei Skills to also include Polearms. If the word "Sword" appears in any Skill then change it's description to "Blade" which is a universal term that includes Polearms (Spears).

I propose a rewrite of the Kensei description:

>>> Kensei perfect their Two Handed Blade Skills. This helped the Samurai and the Onna-bugeisha preferring Katana and Naginata respectively. Some Families trained in both Two Handed Swords and Polearms. <<<

Apparently both Swords and Polearms were still available to anyone from what I've sourced. More importantly however from a gameplay point: Having an existing Class support both Polearms and 2H Swords with Skills is useful for TL2.

Here is a basic internet reference I found to help visualize this:

Onna-bugeisha - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onna-bugeisha
Onna-bugeisha was a type of female warrior belonging to the Japanese nobility. These women engaged in battle alongside samurai men mostly in times of need. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were .... Through its use by many legendary samurai women, the naginata has been ...

I'm still in discussion with TorchModders on these things so the final version of this plan may change.

Originally posted by steffire3:

Originally posted by Graeystone:

One of the things I've always wanted for FEP is a Samurai Class. What would be unique is that 'preferred weapon' would be different for the genders. In real history the male smaurai used the katana(sword) while the female samurai(they existed!) preferred the naginata(spear). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naginata
For FEP+ and if it can be done, the skills for the Samurai Class can be the same however if a character is Male a sword will be required for Skills that depend on a certain weapon(sword) and if Female the weapon type requirement will be Spear/Polearms.

I wrote this to TorchModders on Discord:

Originally posted by steffire3:

As you may have read: There was a request to represent the fact that Male Samurai liked Katana (Swords) and Female Samurai liked Naginata (Polearms).
I've been wondering how to edit the Kensei (2 Handed Sword Master) to represent this and tonight it came to me.

Change the starting weapons for the Genders at the Selection Screen. The Kensei Class description is lacking anyway so writing an added Samurai weapon connection is reasonable. (If I needed Elite Samurai then I would hire Kensei).
Change the Kensei Skills to also include Polearms. If the word "Sword" appears in any Skill then change it's description to "Blade" which is a universal term that includes Polearms (Spears).

I propose a rewrite of the Kensei description:

>>> Kensei perfect their Two Handed Blade Skills. This helped the Samurai and the Onna-bugeisha preferring Katana and Naginata respectively. Some Families trained in both Two Handed Swords and Polearms. <<<

Apparently both Swords and Polearms were still available to anyone from what I've sourced. More importantly however from a gameplay point: Having an existing Class support both Polearms and 2H Swords with Skills is useful for TL2.

Here is a basic internet reference I found to help visualize this:

Onna-bugeisha - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onna-bugeisha
Onna-bugeisha was a type of female warrior belonging to the Japanese nobility. These women engaged in battle alongside samurai men mostly in times of need. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were .... Through its use by many legendary samurai women, the naginata has been ...

I'm still in discussion with TorchModders on these things so the final version of this plan may change.

Cool! Thanks for looking into it!