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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Sullivan" data-source="post: 605756" data-attributes="member: 9824">That looks slightly off to me.  Let me count it up:Round 1, attack bonus:+6 (BAB), +3 (Str), +1 (sword), +2 (charge), +1 (Focus) = +13Round 2, attack bonus:Sword:+6/+1 (BAB), +3 (Str), +1 (Sword), +1 (Focus), +2 (H+1/2), -2 (TWF) = +11/+6, not +13/+8...  unless I missed something?Gauntlet:+6 (BAB), +3 (Str), +1 (Gauntlet), +2 (H+1/2), -2 (TWF) = +10, right.Okay, so I think that you were slightly off.  Still, that's fair.  Okay, so here's a revised version of the feat:Hand-and-a-Half Fighting (General, Fighter)The character is adept at quickly switching between a two and one-handed grip on his weapon in such a way as to surprise less experienced opponents.Prerequisite: +4 BABBenefit: If the character is using a weapon he can use with proficiency in either one or two hands, and he wields the weapon using a different number of hands that he used last round to attack the same opponent, he gets a +2 surprise bonus to his attack rating using that weapon if his opponent has two or more hit dice fewer than he does.Now, your example character doesn't get the +2 bonus with his spiked gauntlet attack.  That means that he's like this:Round 1 -- normal charge for a bastard-sword wielder.Round 2 -- +11/+6 Bastard sword attack, +8 Gauntlet attackRound 3 -- +13/+8 Bastard sword attackAnd anyone his level or the level below is unaffected by his bonuses, not just fighter-types.Does that look more reasonable?EDIT:  He'd be a lean, mean goblin-and-orc-killing-machine, pretty much.  Lots of attacks, and he could funnel his attack rating bonuses to damage for the cleave, if he was already hitting them all the time.  But against an opponent his own level, he'd be someone who was using TWF (which isn't a very good style) with non-optimal weapon choices for the style, and no particular bonuses.  And I'm not sure that he'd even be better at killing mooks than someone who got, say, a Glaive, Great Cleave, and maybe Spring Attack.</blockquote>

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