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Can a katana be used with the weapon finesse trait?

1 lvl dip in swash with slashing grace allows you to

Swashbuckler Finesse (Ex)
At 1st level, a swashbuckler gains the benefits of the Weapon Finesse feat with light or one-handed piercing melee weapons, and she can use her Charisma score in place of Intelligence as a prerequisite for combat feats. This ability counts as having the Weapon Finesse feat for purposes of meeting feat prerequisites.

Slashing Grace
Prerequisite(s): Dex 13, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus with chosen weapon.

Benefit: Choose one kind of light or one-handed slashing weapon (such as the longsword). When wielding your chosen weapon one-handed, you can treat it as a one-handed piercing melee weapon for all feats and class abilities that require such a weapon (such as a swashbuckler’s or a duelist’s precise strike) and you can add your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier to that weapon’s damage. The weapon must be one appropriate for your size.

You do not gain this benefit while fighting with two weapons or using flurry of blows, or any time another hand is otherwise occupied.

Go elf for eastern weapon training treating katanas and wakazashis as martial and you're set. Tho not sure what class you plan on taking. Also if you dip 5lvls instead you gain improved critical meaning katanas now crit on 15-20 with 1d8+dex and hit is dex based not str based. Only feat you'll need is weapon focus.

Well when this was written, a score of 20 (so +5) was the maximum possible score for a PC's Race. This got thrown out of the window when the +4 to a Stat became a possibility, such as the Goblin's case.

You have 2 options.

1) Abide by it and a) max out your Dexterity at 20 or b) have a Dexterity of 22, but max out the modifier to +5, or;
2) Ignore this obsolete passage and a Stat of 22 gives you a +6 modifier.

you make a fair point, thanks!

Hey Humans, so under ability scores for pathfinder it says,"Each ability, after changes made because of race, has a modifier ranging from –5 to +5." But the goblin has a +4 to dex. the reason I bring this up is that I have created a Goblin to play and rolled an 18 and wanted to make it me dex (18+4=22(+6)). this is the only race from my knowledge that doesn't fit the -5 to +5. So time for the question, is it allowed to add the goblin's +4 dex racial score to an 18 to get a 22 dex at lvl 1? I didn't see it a place where it said that I couldn't but I curious.

the shaman has the "chant" hex, is the exact same as the cackle hex, just a different name. also it fits the harrower better than the cackle, unless you want to be overly creepy.