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<blockquote data-quote="Jdvn1" data-source="post: 2324397" data-attributes="member: 26424">Sorry, don't buy it.&nbsp; A person who can use both hands equally well can't necessarily use both hands at the same time.&nbsp; Using two weapons is more difficult than using one, thus the usefulness of the feat and the penalty to attack regardless.If you have shortswords in both hands and you're using your right arm to brace a door, you might use your left hand as your primary attack.&nbsp; If you're falling down a pit and you grab a branch to catch yourself with your left arm, you could use your right as your primary attack.&nbsp; Or, a GM could rule that since one arm is doing something so important and requires more concentration, your other arm will be less dextrous and takes the off-hand penalty.&nbsp; The lack of the Ambidexterity feat gets rid of confusion between 'right and left' versus 'primary and off-hand'.It's 'usually the left' because for most people, most of the time when the issue would come up, your left hand would be the off-hand.&nbsp; &quot;weaker or less dextrous hand (usually left)&quot; doesn't necessitate handedness.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jdvn1, post: 2324397, member: 26424"] Sorry, don't buy it. A person who can use both hands equally well can't necessarily use both hands at the same time. Using two weapons is more difficult than using one, thus the usefulness of the feat and the penalty to attack regardless. If you have shortswords in both hands and you're using your right arm to brace a door, you might use your left hand as your primary attack. If you're falling down a pit and you grab a branch to catch yourself with your left arm, you could use your right as your primary attack. Or, a GM could rule that since one arm is doing something so important and requires more concentration, your other arm will be less dextrous and takes the off-hand penalty. The lack of the Ambidexterity feat gets rid of confusion between 'right and left' versus 'primary and off-hand'. It's 'usually the left' because for most people, most of the time when the issue would come up, your left hand would be the off-hand. "weaker or less dextrous hand (usually left)" doesn't necessitate handedness. [/QUOTE]

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