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GURPS Lite comes in at 32 pages.

Fate Core is a 310 page rulebook. The rules are challenging to teach to new players, investing new player options is difficult, and the rules aren't something I retain in my head at all times. Just because Fate doesn't have a lot of crunchy little bits does not make it simple. It requires...

I would rate Pathfinder 2e is more complex. I would rate GURPS as less complex than 5e.

Aside from the ones in your OP, Trinity Continuum, Fate.

I think sometime in the 2010s, complexity stopping being a pendulum. We are in a state of permanent diversity.

Focus on positive feedback. If they ask you a direct question about some of their rules, just be honest.

It's a better revision of 2014 than 2024 is, IMO, but nothing too radical. For me the weird part is that it appeared in the midst of the OGL Kerfuffle, but they have only released a limited SRD under various licenses. Not the whole books. This is in contrast to, say, Paizo, who continues to...

I resigned from the official licensees program.

Princess Leia's hair style was inspired in part by a hairstyle seen in photographs of some of Mexico's revolutionary women. The Rebellion is multi-planetary and multi-racial; the Empire is human-centric with other friendlies in subordinate roles. The Rebellion embraces Jedi spirituality, an...

I think when people watch Star Wars, they do often miss that it's critical of American Imperialism. There really was a point where the duly elected leader of the Republic created the first Grand Army of the Republic to crush a rebellion. That leader was Abraham Lincoln. It's a kid series but it...

I didn't like the Thrawn novels. Mara Jade was okay but I didn't like her storylines. The Yuzhan Vong were Star Trek villains that accidentally wandered into the Star Wars galaxy. I didn't like Rodians getting the Planet of Hats treatment. I was actually pretty happy with the EU being jettisoned.

A lot of people think of Star Wars as a "Planet of Hats" setting, but if you look at the main sources, members of species have all sorts of various professions.

So basically, if you were a rogue, the best options were a rapier, or a more rapier-y rapier. That's part of what threw me into this chain of thought. I previously envisioned rogues using mostly short swords, or depending on the edition, maybe a long sword, or maybe they have a variant trait...

Then demonstrate it. You claimed they were used in battle all the time, and then for your example gave a musket unit from near the end of the rapier's life. I didn't make you say any of that. If by demonstrably false, you mean, definitely true. Look, we're all trying to have a good time here...

I asked you to name an example of a rapier being used as an officer sidearm, and the one example you came up with was a modern musketeer unit. I don't move the goalposts, you never cleared the first one. Own goal.

Your example is very modern, and I'm confident they did not often use their rapiers against enemy horse. This isn't some test or dare, by the way. If you can come up with a second example feel free. But if it's not example of soldiers going up against contemporaneous longsword users or the like...

Very good. So let's go ahead and note that the Caroleans were musketeers and pikeman. Relate that to the present discussion in any way you wish. I, personally, would choose the musket against a dragon.

I'm not advocating you go up against a large creature with any of those things. I might prefer "a wooden stick" of sufficient size over a rapier, though.

Anything is suitable for warfare, if you're desperate. Can you give me a single example of a rapier being used as the standard sidearm for any officer or "specialized unit?" The US Marines stopped drilling with the saber about two decades ago. The modern tactical knife is functionally similar...

Sorry, I've moved on . Yes. Sticking four inches of a rapier into something that big is probably not winning that fight for you. And what do you do for a second act? A rapier isn't even a better weapon than a mace, in general. It's a specialized dueling weapon.