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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...

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...

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...

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...

IME the vibe comes first, but players then just try to find the most effective weapon that can be made to fit that vibe. My swashbuckler...

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...