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<blockquote data-quote="Folly" data-source="post: 4116941" data-attributes="member: 62919">Oversized TWF pre-reqs are TWF and 13 STR and it allows you to use a medium weapon in your offhand. Using this with monkey grip and the largest medium weapon(1d10/1d12) gives a damage dice increase to (2d8/3d6). This translates to 5.5 -&gt; 9(3.5) to 6.5 -&gt; 10.5(4). This means that for a -2 to hit you gain 3.5 pts of damage. To achieve the 4 pts of damage you take more penalties since you are using a warmace. While this is an improvement to power attacks 2 pts of damage for the same -2, it doesnt take into consideration the lost of flexibility that power attack gives you. Now for fluff reasons you may decide to use it anyways.That is not the end of the story though, since the penalty is static, and the damage gain improves with size. There are situations in which it becomes more beneficial. For example, if you plan to be enlarge (or just are large) on a frequent basis, then the damage shift on a d10 increases from 3.5 to 4.5 (3d8 to 4d8). Now you are getting damage as though you were two hand power attacking. You continue to get bigger gains as you increase in weapon size.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Folly, post: 4116941, member: 62919"] Oversized TWF pre-reqs are TWF and 13 STR and it allows you to use a medium weapon in your offhand. Using this with monkey grip and the largest medium weapon(1d10/1d12) gives a damage dice increase to (2d8/3d6). This translates to 5.5 -> 9(3.5) to 6.5 -> 10.5(4). This means that for a -2 to hit you gain 3.5 pts of damage. To achieve the 4 pts of damage you take more penalties since you are using a warmace. While this is an improvement to power attacks 2 pts of damage for the same -2, it doesnt take into consideration the lost of flexibility that power attack gives you. Now for fluff reasons you may decide to use it anyways. That is not the end of the story though, since the penalty is static, and the damage gain improves with size. There are situations in which it becomes more beneficial. For example, if you plan to be enlarge (or just are large) on a frequent basis, then the damage shift on a d10 increases from 3.5 to 4.5 (3d8 to 4d8). Now you are getting damage as though you were two hand power attacking. You continue to get bigger gains as you increase in weapon size. [/QUOTE]

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