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Message: <blockquote data-quote="inati" data-source="post: 4467759" data-attributes="member: 71567">Mechanically it should be a free action to switch grips, or switch from onehanded to two handed.  Take a real world example of tennis players that switch between a one handed and two handed grip, and how it is done seemlessly and without any thought, and it would be hard to argue that switch grips is anything but a free action.Now throw in the Swordmage class feature of either one handed or two handed bonusesm which is your REAL question.  For this, I would say that if you use a two handed attack during a round and then swap as a free action to one handed, I would rule that your one handed defense bonus doesn't kick in until the start of your next turn.  This way, the mechanics of swapping hands doesn't effect everyone across the board, but the swordmage class is prevented from the cheese that people are afraid would happen.</blockquote>