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Message: <blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 3375318" data-attributes="member: 7859">The first Two Weapon Fighting rules widely used by my group back in 1e was the rule set published in Dragon Magazine and written by Roger Moore.  This rule set I believe was made official in Unearthed Arcana.If you had high Dex, you basically had no penalty.  Everyone that had high Dex used 2 weapons in my group.  Val Kilmer as Mad Mardigan in Willow helped exacerbate the trend.Now if memory serves correctly 2e rules did not make 2 Weapon fighting as easy to do as those 1e rules... at least until the fighter power up book came out...then I seem to remember everyone being slashing specialized 2 weapon gurus or whatever the rules terminology was.2E also saw the Ranger get out of Full Plate Armor, get some stealth skills beyond just being able to surprise people, and the general watering down and broadening of the Giant slaying element ala Favored Enemy.Could Ranger's still specialize in 2e, I've forgotten?  Bow specialization in 1e was /Yoda Very Powerful /YodaI just do not think it is QED that because Drizzt was popular, Rangers got Two Weapon Fighting...I can see it building a Niche for a class redesign.Rangers and Bards were the most altered classes in 2e.</blockquote>