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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8990342" data-attributes="member: 59816">I&nbsp; think that one of the things that make dual-wielding less common IRL is that it takes a lot more practice to get any good at (that and the natural fact that not everyone will get truly good at anything no matter how much they practice). Not only are people generally lazy, but their time is just better spent learning to do things that they will get good at quickly.This is also why crossbows are &quot;better&quot; than bows (they are not, but they are much easier to use) and why the gun ever replaced archery. (Guns didn't start out very accurate, and they were expensive to make and use, but you could &quot;suck&quot; skills-wise and still kill someone).Dual-wielding is just difficult to do well. D&amp;D doesn't model how much work it is to learn anything. Most other games don't either, and even if they do, it's not consistent with the IRL fact that not everyone is even close to equal when it comes to picking up skills. Aptitude is a thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 8990342, member: 59816"] I think that one of the things that make dual-wielding less common IRL is that it takes a [I]lot more practice[/I] to get any good at (that and the natural fact that not everyone will get truly good at anything no matter how much they practice). Not only are people generally lazy, but their time is just better spent learning to do things that they will get good at quickly. This is also why crossbows are "better" than bows (they are not, but they are much easier to use) and why the gun ever replaced archery. (Guns didn't start out very accurate, and they were expensive to make and use, but you could "suck" skills-wise and still kill someone). Dual-wielding is just difficult to do well. D&D doesn't model how much work it is to learn anything. Most other games don't either, and even if they do, it's not consistent with the IRL fact that not everyone is even close to equal when it comes to picking up skills. Aptitude is a thing. [/QUOTE]

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