doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
I rather like that Dex builds are at least as good as strength builds.
And IRL, the rapier is a very good weapon.
IMO, the problem is the low number of differentiating weapon properties.
Balance wise, I get why it isn't light, but it annoys me nontheless, because the natural accompaniment to a rapier should be a dagger, but you can't dual wield with a rapier without the feat. but again, balance. I get it. And older rapiers were long enough that I can see it (although even then they were often used with a main gouche in the off hand).
Just be happy they don't have reach. Seriously. Have you seen how far they can lunge with a classic rapier? Not the later, small sword rapiers, but the old school early ones. Yikes!
Anyway, if you're cool with full plate in your fantasy, in terms of timeline of equipment in IRL medieval Europe, you should be fine with rapiers. Same amount of anachronism.
There really should be a one handed d10 str weapon. Maybe heavy and one handed, somehow? Pick one or be various mace or hammer weapons. But then, why ever pick a longsword?
Like I said, we need more properties, like high crit and brutal in 4e, or different crit ranges and crit damage amounts in 3.x.
Also, my phone autocorrects "crit" to "frog". What the duck?
And IRL, the rapier is a very good weapon.
IMO, the problem is the low number of differentiating weapon properties.
Balance wise, I get why it isn't light, but it annoys me nontheless, because the natural accompaniment to a rapier should be a dagger, but you can't dual wield with a rapier without the feat. but again, balance. I get it. And older rapiers were long enough that I can see it (although even then they were often used with a main gouche in the off hand).
Just be happy they don't have reach. Seriously. Have you seen how far they can lunge with a classic rapier? Not the later, small sword rapiers, but the old school early ones. Yikes!
Anyway, if you're cool with full plate in your fantasy, in terms of timeline of equipment in IRL medieval Europe, you should be fine with rapiers. Same amount of anachronism.
There really should be a one handed d10 str weapon. Maybe heavy and one handed, somehow? Pick one or be various mace or hammer weapons. But then, why ever pick a longsword?
Like I said, we need more properties, like high crit and brutal in 4e, or different crit ranges and crit damage amounts in 3.x.
Also, my phone autocorrects "crit" to "frog". What the duck?