Broadswords aren’t in 5th Edition, so probably not. We have daggers, short swords, rapiers, scimitars, longswords and great swords, so the absence of broadswords isn’t a big deal.
broadsword is just another type of longsword anyway, what he presumably means is the ARMING sword, which proably is what a short sword best represents
Sorry, but this is wrong on both accounts. A broadsword is absolutely not a type of longsword and an arming sword is nothing like short sword.
What today is typically called a broadsword is actually a name for a later style of basket-hilt sword that has been retroactively applied to cross-hilt swords of roughly the same dimensions. Historically, this isn’t accurate, but lots of the names for different types of swords are purely retroactive. What was sometimes called an arming sword, now often referred to as a broadsword, but in its day was most often just called a sword was shorter than a longsword but longer than a shortswort. Hence, why they were just called swords.
