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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7813130" data-attributes="member: 6704184">To get more specific and make a real response, the "problem" was never on my end, far as I can tell. I was just noting that rapier covers a decent range of swords of varying weight, length, bulk, and efficacy in cutting vs stabbing. The idea that there is a single "rapier" that is the correct or real rapier simply isn't accurate, but more importantly doesn't matter because DnD isn't a medieval earth IRL simulator, it's a game of vaguely psuedo-medieval-unless-the-campaign-is-something-else fantasy. My wife's dual wielding Paladin started out with a rapier and handaxe, because I houseruled that rapiers could be used to dual wield without the feat, and the rapier made the most sense as a close-to-the-hilt balanced one-handed sword like the one we imagined her using. My gnome rogue's "rapier" is a weapon made of bone with an obsidian leaf shaped blade similar to the attached image, but longer with a slightly thinner blade that comes to a more distinct taper. Spear and scimitar both didn't make sense to me and my buddy who DMs that campaign, so we stuck with rapier. The weapons are statistics with a name meant to evoke the vague general sort of thing you can use the stat line to represent.</blockquote>