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<blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 36666" data-attributes="member: 548"><p>In case you're wondering about origins, the first official mention (that is, published in a book and not a Dragon Magazine) of Two Weapon Fighting is in Unearthed Arcana. This book was essentially (um, personal opinion ahead...) permission from TSR for everyone to min-max and never, ever play a Fighter again. Drow could fight with two weapons "easily held in one hand" with no penalty whatsoever.</p><p></p><p>Drizzt Do'Urden, or at least his combat ability, is merely a direct translation of this rule. He wasn't exactly the only Drow outcast running around in a D&D game at the time, but he was certainly the most popular! In fact, Drizzt was so popular, TSR apparently decided that someone had to be able to make something very close to Drizzt in their then-new Second Edition game. One snag was that Drow were no longer considered a playable race. They "fixed" that by moving the Drow two-weapon fighting ability to the Ranger class. So Drizzt had obtained his two-weapon ability because he was a Ranger, not because he was a Drow.</p><p></p><p>At the time, I guess they thought everyone who wanted to play a Ranger wanted to "be like Drizzt". At the time, that may have been a valid assumption. There was certainly no big outcry about it back then. Then again, most people weren't on the Internet (without a doubt the #1 Whining Tool in the world) back then either!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Squire James, post: 36666, member: 548"] In case you're wondering about origins, the first official mention (that is, published in a book and not a Dragon Magazine) of Two Weapon Fighting is in Unearthed Arcana. This book was essentially (um, personal opinion ahead...) permission from TSR for everyone to min-max and never, ever play a Fighter again. Drow could fight with two weapons "easily held in one hand" with no penalty whatsoever. Drizzt Do'Urden, or at least his combat ability, is merely a direct translation of this rule. He wasn't exactly the only Drow outcast running around in a D&D game at the time, but he was certainly the most popular! In fact, Drizzt was so popular, TSR apparently decided that someone had to be able to make something very close to Drizzt in their then-new Second Edition game. One snag was that Drow were no longer considered a playable race. They "fixed" that by moving the Drow two-weapon fighting ability to the Ranger class. So Drizzt had obtained his two-weapon ability because he was a Ranger, not because he was a Drow. At the time, I guess they thought everyone who wanted to play a Ranger wanted to "be like Drizzt". At the time, that may have been a valid assumption. There was certainly no big outcry about it back then. Then again, most people weren't on the Internet (without a doubt the #1 Whining Tool in the world) back then either! [/QUOTE]
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