Apologies for the esoteric nature of the question, but this is a d20 Modern rules question, not a D&D rules question.
Let us suppose that a character has a quarterstaff and the feats two-weapon fighting and streetfighting. According to the rules, he can fight with the quarterstaff as though using a medium-sized weapon in his main hand and a light weapon in his off-hand. Does that mean that he can apply the additional 1d4 damage from streetfighting with his off-hand attack?
Thematically, this makes complete sense to me -- the character does a big overhead strike and then finishes with an ugly crack of the butt of the staff into his opponent's gut. Ruleswise, I want to make sure that I'm not making double weapons too powerful (although a large double weapon that lets you do 1d6 on each side is not really gamebreaking -- the person could be using a pair of machetes and get the streetfighting with either attack, not just the off-hand attack).
On a related note, I'm considering allowing all-haft weapons like staves and non-spiked clubs do nonlethal damage without taking the -4 penalty. Has anyone else done this? Have there been any odd and unbalancing results?
Let us suppose that a character has a quarterstaff and the feats two-weapon fighting and streetfighting. According to the rules, he can fight with the quarterstaff as though using a medium-sized weapon in his main hand and a light weapon in his off-hand. Does that mean that he can apply the additional 1d4 damage from streetfighting with his off-hand attack?
Thematically, this makes complete sense to me -- the character does a big overhead strike and then finishes with an ugly crack of the butt of the staff into his opponent's gut. Ruleswise, I want to make sure that I'm not making double weapons too powerful (although a large double weapon that lets you do 1d6 on each side is not really gamebreaking -- the person could be using a pair of machetes and get the streetfighting with either attack, not just the off-hand attack).
On a related note, I'm considering allowing all-haft weapons like staves and non-spiked clubs do nonlethal damage without taking the -4 penalty. Has anyone else done this? Have there been any odd and unbalancing results?
