As a member of a pirate re-enactment group I can confirm the above statement related to rapiers... although being slapped by the side of one still stings like a *censored word*.

I am afraid my character is likely to join the majority in being agility/speed based and light armour wearing. It fit with the background I had in mind for him. Having looked through all the CS's however I am a little confused as to how many skills I should have at this point as some people have about four and others have loooaaads of them. I actually tallied up the number of people who'd taken each skill and weapon if anyone is interested (note that any changes not yet recorded in the CS will not be recorded in the results)? I can confirm now that there is a definite bias towards light armour and acrobatics based characters although, again, not sure how many skills are reasonable at this point.

Am now most of the way done with my CS. Literally just the skills left and that I am awaiting replies on.