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Someone in the 1700s was like "Mm... I think I'll make an old-style rapier based on 1400s German Rapiers." and then did that thing. And that piece is now in a museum 300 years later. This is not rocket surgery. For the person in the 1700s to make a rapier in the style of the 1400s there had...

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/29505 A rapier made in Solingen Germany in the 18th century in the, quote, 15th Century German Style. Meaning 1400s. Meaning they had rapiers in Germany in the 1400s. You can quibble over "Full edge" versus false edge versus point only all you...

If and when I ever take the time to write down all my thoughts into an actual 5e revamp the list of changes will be significant... And the all-importance of Dex will be high among them. Like. First among them is DRASTICALLY narrowing the difference between armor values and then adding...

Tolkien was 100% historically accurate... To Middle Earth, rather than real world Earth. That's rather the point, in the end. Trying to say the Rapier is "Too modern" next to waistcoats in the quintessential fantasy story is silly.

True, but Bilbo also wore a waistcoat which was invented in the 1800s. So. Y'know. Wheee "Historical Accuracy" in Fantasy!

The rapier was a deadly weapon, not 'intended to draw blood'. It was a self-defense tool used to kill unarmored or lightly armored opponents. It was poisoned in Hamlet for dramatic purposes. Shakespeare -loved- his poisons and the drama of a nick being a deadly blow is strong. The rapier also...

The term "Rapier" first appears in the Coplas de la Panedera, a poem describing the first battle of Olmedo in 1445. It criticized the nobility and their cowardice in the fight, where only 22 people died. The poem, itself, was written somewhere between May of 1445 and 1450, certainly earlier than...

Plate armor didn't exist until after the first hand cannons hit the battlefield. It's what plate armor was designed to protect you against. Hand Cannons? 1320. Plate armor? 1350. Rapiers? 1420. The War of the Roses, one of the biggest most well known "Knight in Armor" combats in the history...

Bringing a spear to a fight against a dragon is useless. You're not getting through it's hide before the haft breaks and/or you are swiped into oblivion. Same thing with the lucerne hammer. "Evade!" doesn't work against a hand the size of a human torso with fingers as long as your arm tipped...

In the time it takes you to pull the hammer back for a half swing you're already dead because you have to be close enough for the finishing swing to strike. At least the hand crossbow, useless as it is, can be fired from a short distance away as a final defiant "Up yours!" before you die.

It was a game I was running with friends. Guy's just talking up my DMing and Writing skills.

Damn it! Foiled by my favorite fantasy linguist...

In truth, is -any- weapon made by mortal hands a valid choice against a dragon? Consider, just for a moment, the sheer -size- of a dragon. What long sword would do more than piss the beast off? No man on earth is strong enough to swing a length of steel hard enough to get to anything vital...

Just for you, Guy. I started writing the following 9 minutes after your post. Above the Kingdom of Gotlin, known to its neighbors as the birthplace of the Church of Thaera, the radiant ring shines in the sky. The forests and glens of the highlands and the low floodplains of the island nation...