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<blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 3105896" data-attributes="member: 1457">Handedness (a person's preference for right or left hand) isn't defined in D&amp;D. It's like attractiveness/comeliness, or eye color. Totally up to the player. The game doesn't make any mechanical distinctions for handedness.There is such a thing as &quot;off-hand&quot;, which pretty much means &quot;not primary hand&quot;, and is a way to distinguish between attacks when fighting with two weapons. Note that even if you declare your character to be right-handed, if he wields a weaspon in his left hand and only attacks with that one weapon there are no &quot;off-hand&quot; penalties. The term &quot;off-hand' only applies to circumstances of TWF, and has no bearing on right- or left-handedness. All that said: I think the wizard would still threaten, but he'd attack at a -4 penalty (wielding a quarterstaff in one hand = improvised weapon). -z</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zaruthustran, post: 3105896, member: 1457"] Handedness (a person's preference for right or left hand) isn't defined in D&D. It's like attractiveness/comeliness, or eye color. Totally up to the player. The game doesn't make any mechanical distinctions for handedness. There is such a thing as "off-hand", which pretty much means "not primary hand", and is a way to distinguish between attacks when fighting with two weapons. Note that even if you declare your character to be right-handed, if he wields a weaspon in his left hand and only attacks with that one weapon there are no "off-hand" penalties. The term "off-hand' only applies to circumstances of TWF, and has no bearing on right- or left-handedness. All that said: I think the wizard would still threaten, but he'd attack at a -4 penalty (wielding a quarterstaff in one hand = improvised weapon). -z [/QUOTE]

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