D&D 5E 5e is dead to me! Almost, TWF issue..

[sidonunspa]

I love to play swashbuckler type characters...

Is it me?

Do my eyes deceive me?!?

I can't fight rapier/dagger?!?!?!?

Apparently BOTH weapons need to be light and for some odd reason, rapiers are not light weapons...

 

[Thalionalfirin]

I love to play swashbuckler type characters...

Is it me?

Do my eyes deceive me?!?

I can't fight rapier/dagger?!?!?!?

Apparently BOTH weapons need to be light and for some odd reason, rapiers are not light weapons...

Why not wait until the PHB comes out? Maybe there will be a swashbuckler subclass for the fighter? Or a feat.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

There is a feat for sure. Play the variant human and start with the feat. Done.

 

[Paraxis]

There was a feat in the playtest that among other things let you have one non-light weapon.

If rapiers were light, people would not use rapier/dagger they would use rapier/rapier.

 

[Falling Icicle]

The TWF rules are one of the few things I dislike about this edition. They exclude perfectly reasonable combinations, like the one mentioned above. As a house rule, I will allow any one-handed weapon to be used with TWF, at the cost of a -2 penalty on attack rolls if the weapon isn't light.

 

[Sonny]

I think needing a feat to use TWF with one weapon that's not light works fine. Provided it's still in the PH in August.

Also, Falling Icicle's house rule looks good too.

 

[drjones]

This is Basic D&D. Basic. Until the standard and modular portions are available, it's not time to start complaining that character concept X is not possible.

Personally, I thought the TWF rules are a step up from the 4e model which was very constrained in a desire to make all styles mathematically identical in effect.

 

[mach1.9pants]

"Dual  Wielder
You  master  fighting  with  two  weapons.  You  gain
the  following  benefits:
• You  gain  proficiency  with  all  martial  light
melee  weapons.
• You  have  a  +1  bonus  to  AC  while  you  wield  a
different  weapon  in  each  hand  and  neither
weapon  is  a  shield.
• When  you  engage  in  two-­‐weapon  fighting,  only
one  of  the  melee  weapons  needs  to  be  light.  "

Sorts that out, I think.

 

[sidonunspa]

Fair enough...

Still dislike it,

Btw the 'dead to me' was an attempt at being sarcastic

(Seeing how many 'I'll never play this additon because of X and Y" posts we have seen

 

[Umbran]

Btw the 'dead to me' was an attempt at being sarcastic

(Seeing how many 'I'll never play this additon because of X and Y" posts we have seen

And, for that same reason (it is common) means that folks are apt to take it as a real statement, rather than sarcasm.