[teardropmina]

my thought, just my thought,

since it'll be a western/fantasy/D&D interpretation (transformation) of Samurai no matter how it's done, and so which class and which race really doesn't matter, as long as Samurai as kit can be blended into the BG world.
We have katana, Kenasi, and Yoshimo in the default SoA already; it seems like Japanese culture is more popular than other Asian cultures in the west. I myself (I'm from Taiwan) would like to see some Chinese knight errant type kit or weapons, but hey, Western fantasy and Chinese wu-xia fantasy are in two different worlds, and I'm sorta glad that it's not re-interpeted in SoA since it'll be tweaked according to the western fantasy perspective.

Personally in the context of SoA, I'd prefer Samurai to be a class of its own, like Barbarian (it seems impossible to create new classes), a special sort of *fighter* but not really a fighter.