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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RandomPrecision" data-source="post: 2093671" data-attributes="member: 29267">Because people who are ambidextrous don't have an off-hand.  That's what the feat should give players.But, the fighter could potentially use an ambidexterity feat that eliminates the off-hand penalty to increase his 2-handed damage.I don't know about that - to get full bonuses to attack, a TWF usually uses two light weapons.  If you're saying that the TWF fighter with TWF, ITWF, Ambidexterity, Weapon Focus in the applicable weapons, Weapon Specialization in the applicable weapons, and enchantments that add additional damage are more powerful than a fighter with none of the above, I'd have to agree with you.  I don't feel that two-weapon fighters are unbalanced because of it.  We're talking about 5 feats for that to come into play, so the character with these benefits would have to be either near-epic or a ranger who receives the feats for free when not using medium/heavy armor.  A fighter with heavy armor and a vast plethora of feats can certainly compete with a dual-wielder.I think we also have to look at it from a logical perspective.  If there is an ambidexterity feat (and there should be, if nothing else, for role-playing reasons), then characters who have it cannot logically have an off-hand, and therefore, neither hand should be penalized.  For that matter, maybe ambidexterity shouldn't be as much a feat as it is an option - typical right-handed characters have 1x STR on their right hands and .5 STR on their left hands, left-handed characters have the opposite, and ambidextrous characters have .75 STR on both hands.  It doesn't entirely seem reasonable that they are weaker than other characters in this manner, but this actually seems more acceptable than making ambidextrous have off-hands despite the feat.Perhaps as another method of balancing, ambidexterity might instead give equal dexterity modifiers to each hand.  Therefore, to receive the benefits of ambidexterity, the player would have to take the weapon finesse feat and use an applicable weapon to have a full effective strength modifier.</blockquote>

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