A new feat for two-weapon fighters.

[Dark Jezter]

The 3.5e feat Manyshot got me thinking about a new feat for those who fight with two-weapons.

One of the biggest complaints about fighting with two weapons is that you can only take advantage of this style when you can do a full-attack. This thread could possibly make two-weapon fighters more useful.

Double Swing [General]
You can perform a single rapid attack using a weapon in each hand.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Two-Weapon Fighting
Benefit: As a standard action, you can make a single attack with the weapon in your primary hand, and a single attack with the weapon in your off hand. You suffer a -2 penalty on these two attack rolls in addition to the normal penalties you incur would for two-weapon fighting. For example, a fighter with the Two-Weapon Fighting feat who fights with a one-handed weapon in his primary hand and a light weapon in his off-hand takes a -2 penalty when fighting with two-weapons, but if he did a Double Swing, he would take a -4 penalty on each attack.
Special: A fighter may select Double Swing as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

 

[Stalker0]

If you really want to model it after manyshot, then it should be one attack roll for both swings.

There's a similar feat in The Quint Ranger, where you attack with both weapons, and the damage is added when penetrating DR, can't remember the penalties to attack it gave though.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Well, I didn't want to make it exactly like Manyshot. It's modeled after Manyshot in the sense that you can attack multiple times with a Standard Action.

 

[DeBhaal]

If you really want to model it after manyshot, then it should be one attack roll for both swings.

There's a similar feat in The Quint Ranger, where you attack with both weapons, and the damage is added when penetrating DR, can't remember the penalties to attack it gave though.

Acutally I believe this was in the Quint Fighter ..

Yea .. page 72 of the first print Quint Fighter, the Fegrin's Pair fighting style.

It was the second tier of it

 

[Vanye]

This is funny to me, because I was just thinking of this myself, last night. I was toying more with something like a single strike. I had thought of something like:

Single Strike [General]
You can perform a powerful combined strike.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Two-Weapon Fighting
Benefit: As a standard action, you make make a combined strike with both weapons, at a -4 penalty to hit. If successful, you inflict 1.5 times your normal damage roll.
Normal: As a standard action, you only get to attack with one weapon.
Special: A fighter may select Single Strike as one of his fighter bonus feats.

But I'm not sure I like the mechanics. Anyone have any better ideas?

 

[DeBhaal]

What I mentioned was a combat style for two-weapon fighting, that let the attacker apply damage from both weapons to penetrate DR .. so not *that* much of a help, but it is something

prereqs were BAB 8+, Cleave, Combat Reflexes