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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7926187" data-attributes="member: 93670">no... neither does history.I've also personally caused a compound fracture in a mugger with <a href="https://www.coldsteel.com/african-walking-stick.html" target="_blank">this</a> model walking stick.A rapier is a piercing weapon designed to puncture muscle & vital organs, a skeleton has none of those in a traditional sense but if you poke the bones or use it like a club it will still do some damage.That gets into another problem of 5e trying to balance around some mythical no feat no MC no magic item game while still presenting a huge chunk of the PHB & dmg around those things instead of extensive mundane equipment lists like you'd see in the old d20 modern/western/etc books like you see in starfinder(~8.5 pages of just the equipment tables for the equipment described in the remaining 50 or so pages in "chapter 7 equipment") you might have a point.. but those types of games are the extreme minority at best & the core 5e books do not have that sort of equipment selection needed to support games like that without resorting to magic items.Here are just the ranged weapons from d20 modern past[spoiler][ATTACH=full]118707[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]118708[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]118709[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]118710[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]118711[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]118712[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]118713[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]118714[/ATTACH][/spoiler]That's just the ranged weapons (ie not melee weapons not armors) from one single d20 supplement.  All of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D20_Modern#Rulebooks" target="_blank">the modern books</a> tended to have extensive equipment lists like that.  So no, just because it might be meaningful to some hypothetical GM who might exist that wants to run a game with no everything while prominently baking all that no feats/no magic/no mc/etc stuff into the rules.5e can't have mundane equipment like that because they got rid of all the fiddly bits that contribute to subjective choices between laterally equivalent gear.</blockquote>

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