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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 462016" data-attributes="member: 5990">What you're arguing though is that if you're designing this character to maximize damage, regardless of other constraints, the two-handed approach is usually better.  And if we're talking in terms of designing the character that absolutely maximizes damage without respect to any other constraints, I think that could be true.What I'm saying is that there are characters (and many of them) for which TWF is usually a better option than THF.  Just as an example of what I mean, giving this character the greatsword might be nice for maximizing his damage, but he can't in fact use a greatsword in one hand, which severely restricts the utility of alternating between weapon/shield and shieldless fighting, depending on the circumstance.  If you don't want to have a character designed to fight best with a greatsword, the TWF option can offer you nearly the same punch without it.  Improved TWF (which would be available for many variations of this character) also is a much better choice for high level TWF characters than Weapon Focus, usually comparable to the TH greatsword even.For your cases one and two the numbers look off...One +3 TH Greatsword (focus) w/o crits against AC 15:+8+3+3+1=+15/+10 to hit, mean dmg (7+4+3)=14.   14*(19/20+16/20)=24.5.Two +2 short sword (focus) w/o crits against AC 15:+8+3+2+1-2=+12/+12/+7 to hit, mean dmg. (3.5+3+2)=8.5.  8.5*(18/20+18/20+13/20)=20.825In each case the crits should multiply the dmg by 1.1 (2x, 19-20), giving 26.95 and 22.9075, respectively.  You got 26.2 and 20.9.   There's a discrepancy somewhere..</blockquote>

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