are their plans to add in any official rapier alternatives? I’m currently in a party with 4/5 rapier users across five different classes. It’s making things kinda boring when describing combat flow. #DnDParty is rogue, fighter, blade warlock, cleric and Ranger. I'm the Rogue and I'm actually swapping down a dice size to a short sword because I'm bored of 'I stab with my rapier' dual wielding short swords not massively attractive as an arcane trickster who makes use of bonus actn
— 👻Gremlin (@real_life_ghost) November 25, 2017
Huh, not a common problem I’ve seen. Best bet would be to reskin a few weapons that might also fit that profile.
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) November 26, 2017
Any examples? Pretty much everything is accounted for but rapier is unique as a D8 dex finesse weapon. I ended up having to compromise because fighter went duelist, bladelock multiclassed swashbuckler so a Dex build was advantageous and the ranger picked it because her Dex was up I’d model almost every weapon from this scene as a d8 finesse weapon – https://t.co/oLYV5MzqQp
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) November 26, 2017
Oh, and I wouldn’t use a d10 two handed finesse weapon in the game (too easily cheesed), if everyone in your campaign is going finesse I’d open that up; that spear from the scene might be a good example
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) November 26, 2017
I’ve said this before, but I have to repeat myself…
“I’d model almost every weapon from this scene as a d8 finesse weapon”
No! No you wouldn’t! You would NOT model those weapons as d8 finesse weapons in the game! Because if that were true, then they would ALREADY BE MODELED IN THE GAME, and we wouldn’t be having this discussion!
I’m sick of these bullshit answers where THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THE RULES claim that, if they had their way, the rules would include X, Y, or Z. Bullshit! You HAD your way, and the rules DON’T include X, Y, or Z!
Clearly you didn’t feel that it was necessary to give options for d8 finesse weapons OTHER than rapiers, because if you DID feel it was necessary, YOU WOULD HAVE DONE SO.
Screw it, I’m just going to bite the bullet and rationalize the weapons myself, and maybe share it online somewhere. Who knows – it might become popular and generally accepted enough for WotC to finally understand what they’re doing wrong with these sorts of things…