Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3401306" data-attributes="member: 35788">Cal me stupid, but outside of Hyp's Power Attack example I don't see how the SRD says anything against using weapon finesse with a double weapon.So, basically that says a player can fight with a double weapon as though it were a one-handed and a light.  Right?  I mean, that's almost a direct quote...So, Bob is fighting with a one-handed weapon and a light weapon.  Bob has TWF and Weapon Finesse.  He gets to attack with his one handed weapon using his STR score and also with his light weapon using his DEX score (assuming he wants to, but if Bob has selected Weapon Finesse as a feat that is a safe assumption).  Granted, Bob will take -2 to both the one-handed weapon and light weapon attacks, but that's pretty run of the mill.Now, say Betty has the same stats and the same feat selection.  Betty is fighting with a quarterstaff, so she didn't need to expend any extra feats for EWP or anything like that.  According to the SRD, Betty can treat that Quarterstaff as though she were fighting with a onehanded weapon and a light weapon.  So, Betty gets one attack with one end and adds her STR and has the option of getting an attack with the other end (the light end).  Since the light end of the quarterstaff is as though it were a light weapon, weapon finesse should apply to the attack made by the off hand.  So Betty can add her DEX to the off-hand attack.Please don't yell at me that I'm wrong.  Rationalize to me how fighting with the quarterstaff "as though" it were a one-handed weapon and a light weapon doesn't mean treating the quarterstaff "as though" it were a one-handed weapon and a light weapon.</blockquote>

Verification