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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RandomPrecision" data-source="post: 2094055" data-attributes="member: 29267">Not necessarily - two-weapon fighting is just plain difficult compared to normal fighting.  Less weight makes it easily to do.That doesn't make any sense.  You're saying that fighting with two weapons gives characters an off-hand as a penalty.  The penalty given by TWF is the -2 to attack rolls, not having an off-hand.I don't have the rulebooks in front of me, but I think the table for using a two weapons specifically says "Off-hand weapon is light" for one of the categories.  That seems to be rather strongly related to the off-hand.  In fact, I think the category that gives -2/-2 is labeled "Two weapon fighting feat and off-hand weapon is light", at least in the 3.5 Player's Handbook.I was under the assumption that since most people are right-handed, most characters are right-handed.  If it's ever relevant to the game, we're played that characters have the same primary and off-hands of the characters playing them (which makes for a variety of interesting scenarios - we have one player whose characters often perish, and I always ask why the new person we hire happens to be another lefty, and I also frequently pester the DM by making written requests for free ambidexterity bonuses with both hands).  Regardless, even if there isn't an explicit mechanism, players should be allowed to determine what hand their characters specialize in.  Perfect ambidexterity is unusual enough that it should probably require a feat.  To use another example, what if I want a character who can write with both hands?  Should I take two-weapon fighting, since you claim that ambidexterity is part of that feat?That's silly.  It's still an off-hand, you're just not calling it one.  Ambidexterity should affect more than what the off-hand is called, it should eliminate the presense of it.  Both hands become primary hands.I really don't agree.  Ambidextrous characters shouldn't have off-hands, no matter what.  Perhaps using light weapons can still give a +2 bonus, but there definitely shouldn't be an off-hand strength penalty to characters that don't have off-hands.  I don't think it's unreasonable for a feat that requires 15 dexterity to make one's off-hand a primary hand.  Someone who is ambidextrous but untrained in TWF will still be horrible at fighting with two weapons - they'll still have -6 to attacks from each hand, and all but one attack will be with a given weapon, due to the lack of experience with the fighting style.  However, an ambidextrous character shouldn't be bound to one weapon over the other for this.  An ambidextrous character wielding a dagger and a shortsword without improved TWF should be able to make a full attack with either weapon, and then one attack with the other (subtracting the applicable penalties for not having TWF if applicable, and the -2 that persists).</blockquote>

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