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Message: <blockquote data-quote="philippe willaume" data-source="post: 4073109" data-attributes="member: 60762">Well since broadsword, side-sword backsword, epee, cut and trust what ever it was called through Europe at the time and now, was in use in all the armed forces, I would say pretty superior to rapier…Now when you say rapier, do you mean a backsword on the light side with a skeleton guard. Aka the proto-rapier, or a thin long sword with a skeletal guard, or proper early rapier for that matter.The massively long rapier as in Spanish rapier or Swetenam 4 foot weapon.Or the late rapier that looks so much like a small sword and his not called that because the term has not been coined yet.Should we be really bother by the fact that rapier were floppy long thing and no that good at parrying proper sword let alone long sword. I don’t think so, I mean paring a sway handed with a dagger, an axe or a mace  is as ridiculous so it is not that badMay be rapier, since it seems to be a feat could get you how to use the whole lot of light thrusting oriented weapons, the used in conjuntion with a parrying dagger.Poto-rapier 1d4 slashing 1d8 piercingRapier proper 1d6 piercing and threaten two cases (just to make the 12 foot lunge happens in D&D) Small sword late rapier 1d6 piercingMain gauche/paring dagger 1 d4 piercing +1 in AC or +1 in reflex or both according on how AC panes out.phil</blockquote>