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<blockquote data-quote="Larcen" data-source="post: 3309600" data-attributes="member: 2406">Ideas for TWF and roguish shields seems to be two of the points of thought right now, so I will throw in my 2 cents...Looking in the great Wikipedia for &quot;Main Gauche&quot; (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_gauche" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_gauche</a>) , we find:&quot;In sword fighting, the main-gauche is a dagger used in the off-hand, mainly to assist in parrying incoming thrusts, while the dominant hand wields a rapier or similar longer weapon intended for one-handed use. It may also be used for attack if an opportunity arises.&quot;I say this sort of thinking can apply to most any secondary weapon, not just the main gauche, so how about if the secondary weapon is the rogue's &quot;shield&quot;?&nbsp; Whenever someone uses a secondary weapon, they get no extra attacks, but instead add a +1 to their AC against any melee attack.&nbsp;&nbsp; This would appy to everyone not just rogues.&nbsp; The +1 represents not just your parrying ability, but also the opponent's hesitancy and caution to perform an attack or rush knowing that you have a backup weapon in hand.I would refrain from changing the set AC bonus to something DEX related, with the thought that fast hands can parry easier.&nbsp; DEX is already adding to AC and we dont want the bonus to get too big.Optional:&nbsp; In order to make use of the other good point Wikipedia made, &quot;It may also be used for attack if an opportunity arises&quot;, here is another advantage we can add to TWF...If you are using two weapons and you roll a natural 20, your secondary weapon rolls damage too.&nbsp; There you go.&nbsp; No extra attacks.&nbsp; No bonuses to hit.&nbsp; But still great cause it adds to AC and might provide extra damage from time to time.&nbsp; Since this is a rules-lite game, and I hate to keep track of conditional bonuses (especially small conditional bonuses),&nbsp; the only thing I might change is to make the +1 to AC a global bonus, not just a melee bonus.&nbsp; It's heroic fantasy so swatting an arrow from the air with a dagger is not beyond reason.&nbsp; Heck, Aragorn did it in Fellowship... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Larcen, post: 3309600, member: 2406"] Ideas for TWF and roguish shields seems to be two of the points of thought right now, so I will throw in my 2 cents... Looking in the great Wikipedia for "Main Gauche" ([URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_gauche[/URL]) , we find: "In sword fighting, the main-gauche is a dagger used in the off-hand, mainly to assist in parrying incoming thrusts, while the dominant hand wields a rapier or similar longer weapon intended for one-handed use. It may also be used for attack if an opportunity arises." I say this sort of thinking can apply to most any secondary weapon, not just the main gauche, so how about if the secondary weapon [I]is[/I] the rogue's "shield"? [B]Whenever someone uses a secondary weapon, they get no extra attacks, but instead add a +1 to their AC against any melee attack.[/B] This would appy to everyone not just rogues. The +1 represents not just your parrying ability, but also the opponent's hesitancy and caution to perform an attack or rush knowing that you have a backup weapon in hand. I would refrain from changing the set AC bonus to something DEX related, with the thought that fast hands can parry easier. DEX is already adding to AC and we dont want the bonus to get too big. Optional: In order to make use of the other good point Wikipedia made, "It may also be used for attack if an opportunity arises", here is another advantage we can add to TWF... [B]If you are using two weapons and you roll a natural 20, your secondary weapon rolls damage too.[/B] There you go. No extra attacks. No bonuses to hit. But still great cause it adds to AC and might provide extra damage from time to time. Since this is a rules-lite game, and I hate to keep track of conditional bonuses (especially [I]small[/i] conditional bonuses), the only thing I might change is to make the +1 to AC a global bonus, not just a melee bonus. It's heroic fantasy so swatting an arrow from the air with a dagger is not beyond reason. Heck, Aragorn did it in Fellowship... :cool: [/QUOTE]

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