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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Twig" data-source="post: 6919175" data-attributes="member: 31754">I'll agree that it is subjective.And looking at the numbers again (as I did in my last post) it does look a lot better for the two-weapon Fighter, especially at level 1 through 4. Except when he uses his bonus action for something else (and which my proposed rule addresses), which is something the other two styles don't have to deal with.As I have discovered, you are absolutely correct at lower levels, but it falls behind at higher levels. I can also see a Barbarian mix doing well as the increased stat bonus would be enhanced by the extra attack. The feat also helps a lot, as I mentioned above. All of these facts convinced me that the damage level is fine and I shouldn't mess with it. I am just removing the conflict of the bonus action so the two-weapon wielder's damage is not reduced.Well, I don't think you can know the designer's intent any better than I can. But I would be surprised if they intended a sword and board fighter to be better at offense than a two-weapon fighter.They both seem like offensive styles to me. The two-handed style is (to me) focused on big hits for massive damage. Two weapons suggests lots of attacks where the damage adds up.I am perfectly okay with the two-handed weapon doing more damage, that seems to be what it is all about. And really using two weapons seems to be mostly about damage as well. The only thing that isn't offensive is the +1 AC in the Feat, which really isn't much. What seems the most out of place, looking at the numbers, is the clearly superior damage that two weapon fighting does at levels 1 through 4. I would prefer that it fall between the other two and remain there while scaling up with them. Instead we have a system where it starts great, then slowly becomes the worst of the three as everyone gets better at what they do.If everyone takes their assigned Feat at level 6 it smooths things out a bit and works pretty well. However, if a Variant Human grabs the Dual Wielder Feat at level 1 it becomes even more unbalanced at lower levels.Edit: Added the 'un' in unbalanced. That typo completely changed the meaning of that sentence. Oops.</blockquote>

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