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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Toptomcat" data-source="post: 4924727" data-attributes="member: 16191">Okay. This is driving me mildly up the wall.Which of these do you picture your PC's weapon as being?-A relatively long-bladed, slender sword used mainly for thrusting attacks with a complex hilt?<img src="http://www.digital-eel.com/scans/images/swords_rapier_big.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />-A somewhat shorter version of the above, possibly with a simpler hilt?<img src="http://images.coldsteel-knives.com/Lg/3292_1/88SMS_Cold_Steel_Small_Sword.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />-A versatile sword of moderate length with a curved, single-edged blade and a rather large but not necessarily complex hand guard, used mainly for slashing but sufficiently versitile to allow thrusting?<img src="http://www.civil-war-sword.com/images/foot-officers-sabre-8822f.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />-A simple, extremely narrow blade with a simple but protective circular guard?<img src="http://www.premiumknives.com/knifefiles/Paul_Chen_Swords_Hanwei_Swords/Paul_Chen_Hanwei_Modern_Fencing_Sword.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The first is the classical rapier. The second is a European smallsword. The third is a saber. The fourth is what sport fencing calls a 'saber'- not actually a practical weapon at all, and closer to a smallsword than anything else.Mechanically, the rapier and smallsword are best represented by the rapier, the saber by the longsword or bastard sword, and the fourth by a rapier with reduced Hardness and HP.</blockquote>

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