Rapier

A rapier was a one-handed, martial melee weapon in the sword family.
== Description ==
The rapier was a slender, sharply pointed sword often with a complex hilt designed to protect the wielding hand. The blade could be sharpened along some or all of the length of the blade or may not have any cutting edge at all. A typical rapier cost 20 gp and weighed .
==Weaponology==
Used mainly for thrusting and piercing attacks, it was favored by both fencers and duelists. Rapiers were relatively light blades and quite deadly in the hands of those properly trained, therefore they were classified as martial weapons.
==Notable Rapiers==
;Dragathil
:One of the Baneblades of Demron
;Sembian guardblade
:Expensive magical rapiers usually wielded by Sembite nobles
;Sharptongue
:Milil's holy rapier, which was sometimes loaned to his clerics.
==Appendix==
===Appearances===
:;Novels:
::The Ring of Winter • War in Tethyr • The Crimson Gold
:;Video Games
::Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder • • Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms • Warriors of Waterdeep • Baldur's Gate III
:;Card Games
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===Gallery===
Aerialist rogue - Jason A. Engle.jpg|A rogue wields a rapier against a tentacled monster.
Lantan steel WoW.png|A Lantanese-style rapier as of the late 15 century DR.
Luskan steel WoW.png|A Luskan-style rapier as of the late 15 century DR.
Rapier WoW.jpg|A Waterdhavian-style rapier as of the late 15 century DR.
Different Rapiers.jpg|Various rapiers as well as a basket hilted backsword, a basket hilted broadsword and what looks like two parrying daggers on the right. Zoom
Differnet Rapiers2.jpg|More examples of rapiers. Zoom
Rapier with Scabbard.jpg|A rapier and scabbard elaborately decorated in silver. Zoom
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===References===
Category:Rapiers
Category:One-handed swords
Category:One-handed weapons
Category:Piercing weapons
Category:Melee weapons
Category:Martial weapons
Category:0-24 gold pieces