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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 3210526" data-attributes="member: 40522">The game is what you want it to be. There's nothing wrong with allowing whatever types of weapons you want if you're having fun with it. My point is that a DM is within his rights to limit options (or grant more) based on the flavor or atmosphere that he wants to achieve. In alot of ways, this is a more important consideration than rules questions, because I know the rules are reasonably balanced. Some games are grab-bags of several genres and that's fine.I did take rapiers out of my own games, strictly for flavor reasons. I just don't like them. They're much more Three Musketeers than pseudo-medieval fantasy to me. The scimitar is almost statistically identical, the only differences being the damage type and the fact that you can use Weapon Finesse with a rapier. Two players within seven years have wanted rapiers, and neither one of them minded when I told them that they weren't available. They both reacted with "oh, cool," took scimitars and we gamed on.I've also been told by certain DMs that I can't use a halberd because it's a cheesy weapon. You can make trip attempts with it and set up for a charge, but it doesn't have reach or give you bonuses on disarm attempts or anything. The fact that to does double damage on a charge and does 1d10 damage apparently 'dictates tactics' to some DMs who let half-orc chainfighters in their games (but not a dwarven halberdier who wants to fight some giants).</blockquote>

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