Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
I have a vague memory of stumbling onto that much later. I got my start with BECMI-era Basic D&D, and then made the jump to AD&D Second Edition; it took quite a few years before I went back and started collecting AD&D 1E products.
Yup.The drow two weapon fighting was a 1e drow racial thing mentioned in the drow monster entries in modules, the Fiend Folio, and the 1e Unearthed Arcana when you could play them as an official player race.
Though it was a racial ability for him in 1st ed (which was of course the current edition when The Crystal Shard was published), I always credited Drizz't's popularity as being the reason Rangers got two-weapon fighting as an ability starting in 2nd Ed.
But it took until the Complete Fighter's Handbook for TSR to give us the ability to spend prof slots to use two full-length weapons, instead of two short weapons, or a long one and a short one.
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