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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9862589" data-attributes="member: 2209">The opponent specifically had an offhand weapon, the maneuver was to counter a low double thrust. Drow in 1e had a racial ability to double wield two weapons and a lot wielded either short swords, daggers, or light maces (for clerics) in the 1e modules and according to their 1e monster entries.For PC drow in the 1e Unearthed Arcana it specified "Dark elves do not gain the combat bonuses of the surface elves with regard to sword and bow, but may fight with two weapons without penalty, provided each weapon may be easily wielded in one hand." Salvatore was the first to apply that to scimitars that I saw. It also allowed drow to be rangers as a class which was an inherently outsider thing as rangers had to be good and the drow culture was predominately CE. In 1e when Drizzt first showed up in the Crystal Shard novel rangers had no special class ability/training with two weapons. 2e came out shortly later with an independent thing of rangers having two weapon fighting abilities and drizzt had already been a two-weapon wielding ranger so he fit well under the new rules even though PC drow lost their special drow powers in the 2e PH and just had standard elf powers to start.</blockquote>