Monkey Grip Q?

[Darkmentat]

Just a Q about Monkey grip. With that and having Two weapon and over sized two weapon. would that allow the character to wield two great axes at the same time and if so at what total attack penalty.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Just a Q about Monkey grip. With that and having Two weapon and over sized two weapon. would that allow the character to wield two great axes at the same time and if so at what total attack penalty.

The simple answer is 'No'.

That assumes that you're talking about a Medium character and Medium greataxes.

Monkey Grip doesn't allow you to wield a two-handed weapon of your own size category in one hand. What it does allow you to do is to wield a weapon one size category larger than you without increasing its designation.

So while you couldn't wield a Medium greataxe in one hand, you could wield a Large battleaxe. A Large battleaxe is a one-handed weapon, but normally a Medium creature treats it as a two-handed weapon. Monkey Grip lets a Medium creature treat it as a one-handed weapon, still, at a -2 penalty.

However, Monkey Grip has no effect for weapons wielded in your off-hand. So you'd be limited to one Large battleaxe and one Medium battleaxe.

Normally, using two one-handed weapons with the TWF feat would give you penalties of -4/-4. OTWF lets you treat the off-hand weapon as light, though, so those penalties drop to -2/-2.

Thus, the total penalties for the Large battleaxe come to -4 (-2 and -2), while the total penalties for the Medium battleaxe in your off-hand are only -2.

-Hyp.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Amusingly enough, IIRC Large battleaxes deal 2d6 compared to greataxes' 1d12, so you're slightly better off.

 

[Darkmentat]

Yea i noticed that. Iwas going for the imposing image of a bar, charging in with two Greataxes as part of an intimidation thing more of an rping idea but was trying to stay within the rules with out being to muchkin
Just out of curiosity is their a sugnifcant difference between a Large battleaxe and a greeataxe desidesthe damage I.e. weight