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<blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3493991" data-attributes="member: 8439"><p>If you are fighting multiple weak or party average opponents. IME it is far more common to be fighting one or two very powerful opponents with DR. And if you don't have the right item to overcome DR, the two hander can often still do damage due to the greater damage per hit. The two weaponer usually simply can't. Also with a moving target, the 2H can do the same amount of damage each round as with a static target, while the twf is doing less than average.</p><p></p><p>Even assuming the circumstances where 2H are better are roughly balanced with those where twf is better (they aren't in my expereince, including the STAP, but I'd like to fight more "crowd o mooks" so I can accept the possibilty that other DMs use them more) as was pointed out earlier, twf takes a heavy stat investment and one feat per attack, plus the -2, while 2H takes... buying a two handed weapon. So it's really OK with me if twf is a better fighting style or gets more bang out of pawer attack in some circumstances. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kahuna Burger, post: 3493991, member: 8439"] If you are fighting multiple weak or party average opponents. IME it is far more common to be fighting one or two very powerful opponents with DR. And if you don't have the right item to overcome DR, the two hander can often still do damage due to the greater damage per hit. The two weaponer usually simply can't. Also with a moving target, the 2H can do the same amount of damage each round as with a static target, while the twf is doing less than average. Even assuming the circumstances where 2H are better are roughly balanced with those where twf is better (they aren't in my expereince, including the STAP, but I'd like to fight more "crowd o mooks" so I can accept the possibilty that other DMs use them more) as was pointed out earlier, twf takes a heavy stat investment and one feat per attack, plus the -2, while 2H takes... buying a two handed weapon. So it's really OK with me if twf is a better fighting style or gets more bang out of pawer attack in some circumstances. ;) [/QUOTE]
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