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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 2109205" data-attributes="member: 4134">A devoted two-weapon fighter has twice as many attacks as the fighter that uses a two-handed weapon. So your fighter 6 gets 2 attacks with 1.5x strength each (or x3), while the ranger 6 gets 2 attacks with 1x each and two with 0.5x each (or x3). Giving them x1 (or even x1.5) with each attack will give them far more than the ones who use those big weapons which seem to be suited much better for dealing copious amonts of damage, and that would not be right.And that's as it should be. Using two weapons instead of just one isn't an easy thing, and you must have a decent dexterity to fight that way (or at least, fight without embarrassing oneself). If you want to use your strength to greatest effect, your best off with a big, fat weapon. Two weapons isn't your best bet then, since you also must be quite dextrous for that (and rules-wise, you usually can't benefit from power attack too much since you want a light weapon in your off-hand). But if you're an agile, but not very strong fighter, you might want to built on those facts by using light weapons, ones that don't require brute strength, but use two of them to make more use of your dexterity. And therefore you get massive penalties for it, unless you train for it (and spend feats), which will lessen the penalties (and with the right training, you might even eliminate them, but that requires a high level of specialization)This will make TWF the most strength-effective fighting style, and that's just wrong. Ambidexterity might eliminate an off-hand, which means that it is as easy to fight with the right hand as it is to fight with the left, but you won't suddenly become stronger than before. This would indeed be ambistrength. No, you cannot use more than 1.5 times your strength modifier. But instead of making both attacks with 0.75*Str, we use 1/0.5 for ease of use.There shouldn't be any difference between striking with a big weapon using both hands, and striking with two lighter weapons using both hands. Why will they be less dextrous with one hand, but equally strong? What you describe really isn't ambidexterity, it is the mentioned ambistrength.Using your reasoning, a fighter focuses on one hand and gets the full strength modifier on it, the other one only gets half. In the next round, he may switch hands. There, you have your ambidexterity without breaking the rules convention of having 1.5x Strength mod tops.</blockquote>

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