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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 948226" data-attributes="member: 4910">Unless he is ambidexterous, his attacks will be at +6/+1 (eg -4 from what they would normally be).  He does take a penalty for wielding a weapon in his off-hand.  A shield used to bash is considdered a martial bludgeoning weapon, and is always considdered to be light, regardless of the size of the shield (exception - you cannot bash with tower shields or bucklers).  He does not take any penalty for two weapon fighting if he attacks with just the shield.  If the fighter takes the full attack action he would get two attacks with the longsword, and one with the shield bash.  He takes all the penalties for fighting with two weapons, again taking into account that the shield is considdered to be a light weapon.  At his option, he could take only one attack with each weapon.. but there would be no reason to - he would still take the two weapon fighting penalties even if he forfited his second attack with his main hand. There are several situation in which this could be considdered useful.  Moving someone out of a doorway, knocking them off a cliff, off stairs, or off their horse are all doable.  The bash-ee does provoke AoOs for being moved in this manner, but only from other combatants - not from the bash-or, or the bash-ee.  Arguably, if the space the opponent is bashed into is occupied, they are knocked prone in that space.</blockquote>