Why a rapier is bad for an adventurer

[Mannahnin]

I do not have the old D&D manuals but my impression was the D&D broadsword is what is no referred to as an arming sword.
Whereas what are now (in historical circles) as broadswords are weapons that are also descended from the arming sword with similar hilts and guards as rapiers but beefier blades more suited for cutting. I believe at the time the English referred to these military swords as great swords or war swords.

Yes. 5 Torches Deep, as one of its idiosyncracies, uses the more accurate terms arming sword and longsword rather than longsword and greatsword.

 

[CleverNickName]

Should My D&D Character Use a Rapier?

Cons:

(list of historic reasons)​

(list of pop culture references)​

(list of fantasy tropes)​

(list of science reasons)​

Pros:

Dexterity​

 

[Mannahnin]

Should My D&D Character Use a Rapier?

Cons:

(list of historic reasons)​

(list of pop culture references)​

(list of fantasy tropes)​

(list of science reasons)​

Pros:

Dexterity​

Errol Flynn The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, and The Princess Bride are negatives?

 

[gorice]

Errol Flynn and The Princess Bride are negatives?

I have some bad news about Errol Flynn.

 

[Mannahnin]

I have some bad news about Errol Flynn.

Let's say The Adventures of Robin Hood, then. Or we could go further back, to Douglas Fairbanks.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

“The Druid abides.”

I'm the Druid, so that's what you call me. That or, uh, His Druidness, or uh, Druider, or El Druiderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Let's say The Adventures of Robin Hood, then. Or we could go further back, to Douglas Fairbanks.

I have what I now call the Asimov Line.* That's the point where a person has heard so many bad things about people that have done things that they admire (kinda like a milkshake duck theory) that they are just resigned to the fact that every single person that has made anything cool that they like probably did something, at some time, that was terrible.


*I call it this because for me, the tipping point was when I saw an article about how Isaac Asimov (of Laws of Robotics and Golden Age of Science Fiction fame) was a serial and well-known sexual harasser. I mean ... this was the guy that was famous for not drinking and not including any sex and barely a hint of romance in his writing, which he churned out so prolifically that even Stephen King thought he should slow down. Ugh.

 

[trappedslider]

Or we could go further back, to Douglas Fairbanks.

That man was doing his own stunts before stunt doubles were a thing.

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

I'm the Druid, so that's what you call me. That or, uh, His Druidness, or uh, Druider, or El Druiderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing

Well, I have my next character concept. Thanks, Snarf.
(I'm sure it's been done, but it hasn't been done in MY current group.)

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Well, I have my next character concept. Thanks, Snarf.
(I'm sure it's been done, but it hasn't been done in MY current group.)

Let me guess- your your PC, El Druiderino, is on a quest. To find a ... magic carpet! One that was STOLEN from your family.

Not a flying one. Just one that, you know, will magically tie the room together.