Mechanical justifcation for fighting with one hand?

[Moon-Lancer]

Thier is a gnome sheild that looks like a cape. Its a pritty neet flaverfull feat. Its in races of stone. Basicly i think the idea is you deflect attacks with your cape, but it says you still need to hold the cape to do so.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Show your DM the scene from Revenge of the Sith where Obi Wan (fighting with one weapon in one hand) takes apart General Grievous (fighting with four weapons in four hands, the twinked out b*astard). Use this as a justification for making up some custom feats to support your one weapon, one hand fighting style.

I know, I know, it's not RAW... but if Two-Weapon Defense can grant a +1 shield bonus to AC, why can't there be a One-Weapon Defense that does the same thing?

 

[The_Ditto]

I know, I know, it's not RAW... but if Two-Weapon Defense can grant a +1 shield bonus to AC, why can't there be a One-Weapon Defense that does the same thing?

.. by flipping him the bird, right?

 

[SlagMortar]

Duelist prestige class in the DMG is required to fight one handed and gets some nice defensive bonuses. It synergies well with swashbuckler.

 

[Voadam]

Deflect arrows requires a free hand. Improved unarmed then deflect arrows.

 

[sukael]

Thier is a gnome sheild that looks like a cape. Its a pritty neet flaverfull feat. Its in races of stone. Basicly i think the idea is you deflect attacks with your cape, but it says you still need to hold the cape to do so.

Gnome twistcloak, I think it is. The main advantage is that (I think) you can apply its bonus to your touch AC, including enhancement bonuses.

 

[DarkJester]

There is a feat that grants you a +2 bonus to armor class when only using a one handed weapon, let me find it...

Edit: Okay found it, though I'm not sure if it'll be of use to you. It's in the Dragon Compendium: Single Blade Style: Prereq. 10 bab, finesse, combat expertise. = light armor or no armor and gain +2 dodge bonus to ac.

 

[Patlin]

I'm pretty sure I've seen one or more prstige class with bonuses for having a particular weapon in one hand and nothing in the other. Bladesinger maybe?

(Felon nailed it in one with the Einhander feat, that's what I was originally intending to say.)

 

[Aust Diamondew]

Deflect arrows requires a free hand. Improved unarmed then deflect arrows.

I did this before, then I took TWF and stunning fist and punched people with the offhand.

 

[Asmor]

More thanks for all the ideas. Definitely gonna take a look at the duelist...

I'm actually starting to skew more towards a thrown-weapon specialist (though keeping the single-handed rapier) and going after master thrower... No reason I can't take 2 prestige classes.

Only downside is that now I'm finding tons of feats I want so it's starting to make me want to go fighter instead of swashbuckler. >_< Why couldn't it have been like this back when I had the level 10 fighter and there were practically no feats I wanted? sigh... I guess having two combat styles'll do that, eh?