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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 7097945" data-attributes="member: 6777737">Realistic dual wielding as a character strategy involves being able to use the same attack routine round after round with two weapons in hand.  Yes, if you grossly warp the normative meaning of "dual wield" then you can dual wield hand crossbows.  However, that's incidental dual wielding because it lasts exactly one round before it falls apart.  You can't build a character around doing it.However, even if you have the Crossbow Expert feat, you still don't get round after round of identical attack routines with both weapons in spite of the fact that you can do it with a single hand crossbow and it's just mechanically better to do it that way.  In other words, Crawford ruled that the game explicitly subverts the Rule of Cool.(And if you don't think dual wielding pistols is cool, you haven't watched enough John Woo.)It's the same stupid problem as thrown weapons and dual wielding.  You can do it once, and then you have to find something else to do because of the stupid "draw a weapon" restriction that doesn't apply to arrows and bolts.  Remember when darts (and shuriken, IIRC) started out 3 per 1 and went up from there?</blockquote>