Weapon Finesse

[Technik4]

Stop the press! It seems you now apply your ACP (armor check penalty) die rolls when using weapon finesse. Could this be true?

Also characters with Weapon Finesse apply their Armor Check Penalty to their Die Rolls (if that was in 3.0 then I've been cheating).

Technik

 

[Ravellion]

I like this! Even chain shirt (MW) would still give a -1 penalty. Reinforces the archetype of the lightly armed and armoured swashbuckler in my opinion. Good job!

Rav

 

[InShambles]

Stop the press! It seems you now apply your ACP (armor check penalty) die rolls when using weapon finesse. Could this be true?

In 3.0e only the shield ACP applied. I hope to hell the word shield was left out by our scooper.

 

[Ruvion]

That is also my hope as well...but I hope to heaven in my case.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Andy Collins has been saying to not completely believe all of these things until we get the books...it seems to imply that our guyss with the book may be misinterpreting or reading a few things wrong...just a warning.

 

[BryonD]

Andy is wise

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Andy is wise

Yep.


...and he WROTE the books...

 

[BryonD]

Yep

 

[InShambles]

Not to mention that are scoopers have left out information and had to correct themselves. I appreciate their answering but they need to at least take the time to get it right.

 

[theoremtank]

I sincerely hope this news is not the case. Dexterity related fighters already have so few rule mechanic avenues to take to be effective. I don't know why they would try to weaken weapon finesse. It was certainly not overpowering in 3.0.

In fact I was really hoping 3.5 would introduce new feats to support the dexterous warrior types. But it looks like this is not the case.

To top it off, they gave 2handed weapon fighters a x2 strenght bonus instead of x1.5. This swings things even more in favor of the brute force fighter.