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<blockquote data-quote="Olrox17" data-source="post: 8994302" data-attributes="member: 6801397">Dual wielding. It’s not the greatest 5e combat style, but it clearly does have its niches, as is (rogues, for instance).But everywhere I read that, historically, two weapon fighting wasn’t really useful. It generally wasn’t worth giving the defense of a shield (especially vs missiles) or the reach and anti-armor power of a two hander. Even the few examples of duel wielding in fencing seem to relegate the off hand weapon to the role of a defensive implement, which is a far cry from the d&amp;d incarnation of dual wielding, which is all about offense.One of the only things that two weapon fighting seems to be historically good at (at least according to my limited research) is fending off multiple lightly armored opponents at once.Because of that, I was considering to house rule TWF and make it all about attacking multiple opponent at once. It would become the AoE weapon style, so to speak.What do you think? I’m specifically NOT making this a + thread, because I’m also interested in negative feedback about this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olrox17, post: 8994302, member: 6801397"] Dual wielding. It’s not the greatest 5e combat style, but it clearly does have its niches, as is (rogues, for instance). But everywhere I read that, historically, two weapon fighting wasn’t really useful. It generally wasn’t worth giving the defense of a shield (especially vs missiles) or the reach and anti-armor power of a two hander. Even the few examples of duel wielding in fencing seem to relegate the off hand weapon to the role of a defensive implement, which is a far cry from the d&d incarnation of dual wielding, which is all about offense. One of the only things that two weapon fighting seems to be historically good at (at least according to my limited research) is fending off multiple lightly armored opponents at once. Because of that, I was considering to house rule TWF and make it all about attacking multiple opponent at once. It would become the AoE weapon style, so to speak. What do you think? I’m specifically NOT making this a + thread, because I’m also interested in negative feedback about this. [/QUOTE]

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