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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3280586" data-attributes="member: 1656">I'm saying that we know from earlier text that you get n attacks in a round.If you wield a second weapon in your off-hand, we can make that n+1.And that if the condition in the first sentence is fulfilled - that is, if we are fighting 'in this way' - a penalty applies.What is that condition?  It's either 'you wield a second weapon in your off-hand', or 'you make an extra attack'.By my reading, making an extra attack does not describe a 'way' of fighting.  It's a benefit of a way of fighting.  The way of fighting is using two weapons.  So to me, the answer to 'What condition does "in this way" describe?" is 'You wield a second weapon in your off-hand'.  Fighting in this way has a benefit - you can, if you so wish, make an extra attack.It also has a drawback - you take a penalty on your attack rolls.I don't think that (c) is necessarily 'in return for' (b).The pattern is, rather:  If you (a)______, you can (but need not) get (b)______.  If the condition in the first sentence is met, the penalty (c)______ applies.(c) is not definitively linked to (b); to me, by the PHB wording, it's more intuitively linked to (a), though that is not explicitly defined either.-Hyp.</blockquote>