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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8680122" data-attributes="member: 82106">I am not that expert on all the different nuances of how various weapon stats play out in 5e. In STYLISTIC terms I think it might be fair to distinguish between a rapier and a sword, as rapiers are pretty much pure stabbing weapons, and not actually much use as general arms, being more of a dueling or maybe self-defense weapon. In naive terms it seems like making them purely DEX based is at least thematic.Yeah, well, those were really hunting tools and AFAIK their only actual use as weapons was in the Roman gladiatorial context (undoubtedly they appeared somewhere else, but they were never a serious military weapon AFAIK). Its another of those 'hair splitting' things though, as there are various designs of pole arm that have some similar features, lol.</blockquote>