Best weapon for a large kensai

[Petrus222]

Originally my idea was to take a reach weapon, and stand behind the party meat wall, but then I realized with a 2 handed reach weapon, I'm pooching myself out of spell casting which defeats the purpose of going kensai... so if anyone knows of a one handed reach weapon or has a better suggestion for a non-reach weapon it'd be appreciated.

I was originally going to with a medium sized fauchard and take the -2 to hit since I'm large, but -4 when casting is a lot. Falcata or even tetsubo are looking better at this point. Any thoughts are welcome. (The character will have a high strength.)

[Danit]

do a katana 2d6 damage and a 18-20 x2 crit

[Danit]

o and then make it a black blade so you never have to buy a new weapon again

[Paladin of Baha-who?]

Large characters will generally have reach already. If you want more reach, you could use a whip or take the lunge feat.

[Darkflame]

just use a large scimitar this way you can use a mithrill buckler and get the lunge feat!

the katana is ofcourse also nice

or if you want to get alot of arcane points get a wejroot great trebutje

[Danit]

A dervish dance scimitar would be good but he says hes focusing on str so a katana would beat it out unless he switched to dex

[galahad2112]

Whip is the answer to everything a large character could ever want. Don't worry about the penalties for attacking as a large creature. Turn them into a benefit by targeting CMD. Trips, disarms, even grapples with appropriate feats are all good things. The best part: your free weapon focus feat gives a +1 to all of these maneuvers.

Also, please tell me that this large race is humanoid and can benefit from enlarge person. That would just be bananas.

[I Hate Nickelback]

Yeah, just for fun, what race is this magus?

[Petrus222]

It's an aasimar with the giant template in a high powered gestalt game. I briefly considered duegar to get to huge, but remembering every buff and penalty depending what size I was seemed like it might get tedious. (though I think I can still cast elarge person on myself this way, it's not intrinsic to the character.)

My original plan was to take a long spear, Improved UA strike and go after Whirlwind attack, so to hit everything within 20' of me, but I'm thinking I could probably find something better than that.

[darkwarriorkarg]

Halfling spiked chain. Attach 4-6 halflings together in a line, all in spiked armour

[Danit]

Could also use a trident

[Danit]

But with the kensai you are a crit monster so you realy want a 18-20 weapon