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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8246491" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I’m not a huge fan of Shad, but that video series was excellent. His absolute best work, if you ask me.Yeah, falchions and Messers are the exact same swords with different hilt construction (likely for legal purposes, so knife makers guilds could get in on selling them). They have a whole typology much like the Okashott typology for knightly swords, but all varieties had very thin blades, and were surprisingly light. Probably extremely effective at cutting through flesh and textile armor, but probably much less effective against metal armor, which suggests an anti-peasant weapon.All of this points to finesse to me. As a light, superior cutter that struggles against metal armor, in D&D terms I would think its use would be more about Dexterity and finding a gap in the opponent’s armor than Strength and overwhelming their defense. In fact, I think the scimitar stats already cover a one-handed falschion or messer quite well. I’d just change the name to curved sword or backsword and have it cover all manner of such light cutting blades. Maybe add a versatile 1d6/2d4 finesse slashing weapon to cover kriegsmessers, katanas, and other such curved cutting blades with longer hilts, and call it a long backsword.</blockquote>