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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4748202" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I will even go further than Mengu on this. Multiple attack capabilities are BROKEN. They add a huge amount of attack power to anyone that has them. Twin Strike, Dual Strike, Rain of Blows, etc are ALL broken powers already. Adding another way to make multiple attack rolls only increases the breakage to the whole game.There is really no logic whatsoever for the concept that multiple weapons in hand should double someone's attack capability. There is no argument from realism. Having some basic experience with melee combat will quickly inform anyone that an off-hand weapon adds at best some minuscule amount to your offense, at best. There is no argument from game balance since, as I said above, ALL multi-attack granting game mechanics in 4e are already considered broken.The only argument for it is a bad one, which is that earlier editions of D&D worked this way. It was broken in earlier editions too. Players may expect it, but they can live with their disappointment IMHO. TWF and TWD are actually a pretty elegant solution already. You get a very minor bump to using two weapons, if you expend some feats.</blockquote>