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<blockquote data-quote="Technik4" data-source="post: 860156" data-attributes="member: 7211">Should ambidexterity walk the plank? Personally I don't think so. Right now (from what we know) TWF [3.5] will reduce the penalties from -6/-10 to -4/-4, with an additional +2/+2 if the off-hand weapon is light.Now, reality aside, lets talk game mechanics. Just as it is ridiculous to try and fight DR 50/+3 with a +2 weapon, it is silly to try and wield 2 weapons with penalties like -6/-10. And when I say silly, I mean absurd.What if TWF reduced penalties to -4/-4, but with no regards to a further reduction if the off-hand weapon is light. This means, that for the 2-longsword wielder, or 2-bastard sword weilder, it costs 1 feat to fight with 2 weapons. However a rogue who chooses 2 shortswords will be at a larger penalty until the rogue has mastered ambidexterity.Furthermore, ambidexterity should give a +2 bonus to Sleight of Hand (was Pickpocket). Would this make it a worthwhile feat? Or am I just dense in thinking that 1 feat is too cheap for dual-wielding two cheap shortswords? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I would set the prereqs for TWF to be STR based, while Ambidexterity would be DEX based. Thus you could make a brute twf or a finesse twf. Double weapons would work without ambidexterity, requiring only twf to get a -2/-2.The biggest problem I see is that it further penalizes rogues to try a rapier/shortsword style (or any twf style with 2 different styles), since it costs even more feats with regards to Weapon Focus.Technik</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Technik4, post: 860156, member: 7211"] Should ambidexterity walk the plank? Personally I don't think so. Right now (from what we know) TWF [3.5] will reduce the penalties from -6/-10 to -4/-4, with an additional +2/+2 if the off-hand weapon is light. Now, reality aside, lets talk game mechanics. Just as it is ridiculous to try and fight DR 50/+3 with a +2 weapon, it is silly to try and wield 2 weapons with penalties like -6/-10. And when I say silly, I mean absurd. What if TWF reduced penalties to -4/-4, but with no regards to a further reduction if the off-hand weapon is light. This means, that for the 2-longsword wielder, or 2-bastard sword weilder, it costs 1 feat to fight with 2 weapons. However a rogue who chooses 2 shortswords will be at a larger penalty until the rogue has mastered ambidexterity. Furthermore, ambidexterity should give a +2 bonus to Sleight of Hand (was Pickpocket). Would this make it a worthwhile feat? Or am I just dense in thinking that 1 feat is too cheap for dual-wielding two cheap shortswords? :) I would set the prereqs for TWF to be STR based, while Ambidexterity would be DEX based. Thus you could make a brute twf or a finesse twf. Double weapons would work without ambidexterity, requiring only twf to get a -2/-2. The biggest problem I see is that it further penalizes rogues to try a rapier/shortsword style (or any twf style with 2 different styles), since it costs even more feats with regards to Weapon Focus. Technik [/QUOTE]

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