Double Weapons: Popularity?

[Ogrork the Mighty]

How frequent do people use/see double weapons? I ask b/c I very rarely see them being used. Even the quarterstaff is often simply used as a normal weapon. The only double weapon I can recall seeing someone use is the dwarven urgosh.

Is it just not worth it?

 

[Crothian]

I have seen a total of zero double weapons used by PCs since d20 came out. I have used them for NPCs though.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

For me the problem is the extra feat. I don't play straight fighters very often, who have the feats to burn. Those times I want to TWF, it's going to be a fighter/rogue or straight rogue, since I need a super-high dex to get all the TWF feats, and therefore may not have the high strength to give those extra attacks any Oomph without Sneak Attack.

So then I'm left with spending an extra feat on the EWP, or merely dual-wielding daggers or short swords.

I wind up going with the daggers or short swords.

 

[nimisgod]

with the coming of the Oversized Two-weapon Fighting feat, one of the bigger advantages to the double weapon (better damage dice) has disappeared. And treasure pile-wise, IME, it's more likely for someone to find two different weapons to dual-wield than to find a double weapon.

 

[ElvishBard]

I have seen two of my players use them, a double orc axe and a double bladed sword. The cleric was the one who used the axe, but whatever spend your feats as you will I suppose.

I have used them twice myself, once as a PC ranger and once as the eye of grumsh.

 

[kenobi65]

I've seen one PC using a double-bladed sword. She was tricked out with the appropriate feats, so she could do quite a bit of damage, but obviously the character concept was developed towards it.

I've also seen several NPC orcs (esp. using the Eye of Gruumsh PrC) using orcish double-axes. They can get nasty.

 

[Corsair]

with the coming of the Oversized Two-weapon Fighting feat, one of the bigger advantages to the double weapon (better damage dice) has disappeared. And treasure pile-wise, IME, it's more likely for someone to find two different weapons to dual-wield than to find a double weapon.

I was about to post the same thing.

 

[Jdvn1]

I really like double weapons, and I convinced a friend of mine to start using them.

Woo!

 

[Sir Brennen]

I'm currently playing a dwarven ranger wielding an urgrosh. Of course, I didn't have to spend any feats to use it as a double weapon - it was all based on racial and class features. Before I chose two-weapon fighting at 2nd lvl, I could also use just the axe end as a two handed weapon.

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[cignus_pfaccari]

My Birthright TWF rogue used a quarterstaff, and after a 3.5 revision (taking the Exoticist fighter variant from Dragon), an ashandarei*.

Brad

* - Wheel of Time weapon...glaive on one end, staff on the other. How it's different from a regular glaive is a good question...