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<blockquote data-quote="auburn2" data-source="post: 7048570" data-attributes="member: 6855259">I love my rapier, but in the gamse I play both as DM and player it is definitely NOT as common as longswords, shortswords or scimitars.My bladesinger has one but they are not overly common in my games I think because:1. Dex fighters will generally be better off going dual wield which will push them away from rapiers to small weapons.&nbsp; 2. Elves don't get rapiers for free (drow do but not others), they do get longswords and shortswords.3. You are stuck with piercing damage, which is the worst weapon damage type.As far as finessing the dragon to death - I would argue a human/humanish being fighting a dragon with any hand held weapon is pretty silly.&nbsp; In fact when you get down to it the very idea of a dragon at all is pretty silly.&nbsp; So if I can suspend disbelief enough to imagine the dragon is there I can probably suspend disbelief enough to imagine that the rapier could kill it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="auburn2, post: 7048570, member: 6855259"] I love my rapier, but in the gamse I play both as DM and player it is definitely NOT as common as longswords, shortswords or scimitars. My bladesinger has one but they are not overly common in my games I think because: 1. Dex fighters will generally be better off going dual wield which will push them away from rapiers to small weapons. 2. Elves don't get rapiers for free (drow do but not others), they do get longswords and shortswords. 3. You are stuck with piercing damage, which is the worst weapon damage type. As far as finessing the dragon to death - I would argue a human/humanish being fighting a dragon with any hand held weapon is pretty silly. In fact when you get down to it the very idea of a dragon at all is pretty silly. So if I can suspend disbelief enough to imagine the dragon is there I can probably suspend disbelief enough to imagine that the rapier could kill it. [/QUOTE]

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