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There is no default penalty for wearing armor in P2E or Savage Worlds, that is specifically a quirk of Savage Pathfinder that imitates...

Anyhow, moving on from trying to explain repeatedly to people that the term rapier comes directly from the Italian and Spanish word...

If you want to get persnickity, 1e uses "sword, long" in the PH weapon tables, uses "long sword" as two words everywhere else in the PH...

It really didn't. Transitional swords existed in the 15th century in Italy and Spain, that were called "dress swords," which provided...

AD&D actually uses the term "long sword," two words, which in Shakespeare's time sometimes did refer to a general one-handed sword...

The blade shape and hilt puts that in the category of what is usually called a sidesword. As noted several times previously the terms...

Yep, that's a transitional weapon from 1490 Italy. So, not 1440, not Germany, and not a rapier. As I noted above, the terminology...

My point was that it was called a rapier in the 20th century, "it" in this case being a 19th century sword, and rapiers, however you...

No, it just requires the "private donor" to donate a weapon in the museum called Rapier in the 15th century century German Style...

That's just the title. The entry reads This is not a 16th century weapon.

I definitely feel like the swashbuckling pirate, upon encountering the dragon, should feel a little under-dressed and under-armed. Maybe...

Actually it says "espada ropera" which is the linguistic root I noted above, literally means "sword for dressing," and in that era would...

Someone did not grow up in the post apocalyptic outback and it shows.