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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 D&D 3e/P1E.

Anyhow, moving on from trying to explain repeatedly to people that the term rapier comes directly from the Italian and Spanish word ropera ("for dressing") and not from some arbitrary sword classification, and how transitional forms appear later in the 15th century and the rapier proper only in...

It really didn't. Transitional swords existed in the 15th century in Italy and Spain, that were called "dress swords," which provided the etymological origin of the German and English cognates of "rapier." This is a little like arguing that the existence of the show American Gladiator meant that...

AD&D actually uses the term "long sword," two words, which in Shakespeare's time sometimes did refer to a general one-handed sword. Basic D&D just called it a "sword," or when clarity was needed, "sword, normal." The bastard sword was correctly described in both games; it was starting with 3e...

Yep, that's a transitional weapon from 1490 Italy. So, not 1440, not Germany, and not a rapier. As I noted above, the terminology comes from Spain and Italy ("dress sword") and predates the rapier proper. That's a spada de lato. And I'm not just being picky, that thing is purely an arming...

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 want to define them, did not exist in Germany in 1440. They should up a hundred years later in parts of Europe and don't really penetrate the German fencing world...

No, it just requires the "private donor" to donate a weapon in the museum called Rapier in the 15th century century German Style, probably made in the 18th or 19th century. Which, by the way, is a period of time in which historical knowledge of weaponry was weak and beset with all sorts of...

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 stick with the musket pistol during that encounter, if you can get someone to play forward.

Actually it says "espada ropera" which is the linguistic root I noted above, literally means "sword for dressing," and in that era would have referred to a sidesword (spada de lato, in the Italian parlance). That was a transitional weapon that was used in early modern fencing; the rapier derived...

Bush people still hunt them for meat, using blowguns, traps, and spears.

Well, yeah. I've never held double chicken sabers, but just about anything other than that. Well, I have touched but not lifted a gada (heavy Indian mace). Weapons are kind of a thing for me. I do acknowledge the 3e double scimitar would be worse, because the spinning beanie scimitar is worse...

Cars actually aren't for fighting duels or killing ruffians.

What do you think a rapier was designed for?

I don't think you can use Action Surge to Cast a Spell, even if the Cast a Spell is part of a Ready action. Action Surge doesn't limit the action type based on the sequence in the round, it's an absolute restriction. Mind you, I don't care for the change, or lots of related issues, but I think...

Maximilian armor is real weaponry. And a rapier is a real weapon, just not one you'd use against someone in Maximilian plate.

The rapier actually wasn't invented until about 1540, and didn't see widespread adoption for another century. Plate armor, pollaxes, and the arquebus (gun) all predate the rapier by more than a century. Sidearms like the sword, rapier, katana and so forth were primarily used in close quarters...

Part of it's that it's such a modern weapon, it begs for an explanation why it's needed in the first place.