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<blockquote data-quote="Theo R Cwithin" data-source="post: 5154788" data-attributes="member: 75712">Thanks for all the responses.It looks like the the &quot;no penalty&quot; folks have it, which is what I was thinking, as well.&nbsp; As Stream noted, it's underpowered anyway, so no party will be consistently winning battles by using this tactic.&nbsp; Frankly, I was thinking of it as a &quot;last resort&quot; tactic: you're 1st level, surrounded by zombies and skeletons, a broken sword in one hand, a discarded femur in the other, and desperately in need of a break.&nbsp; Reminds of university, actually.@Aluvial: I tend to think of the off-hand penalty as applying only when the fighter is absolutely restricted to using that hand.&nbsp; For example, a character chained to a wall or hanging onto a precipice by his primary hand would suffer the off-hand penalty.&nbsp;&nbsp; And of course, when TWFing, the off-hand is actively involved in trying to land a blow, as is the primary: there's no choice.&nbsp; On the other hand (so to speak), in the case I was noting, the off-hand is just holding another weapon; the wielder is switching weapons from hand to hand as the rounds progress, but he's still just mainly fighting with his primary hand. Meh, it's not terribly logical, but I can justify it in a hand-wavy way.&nbsp; Or even an off-hand-wavy way.&nbsp;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Theo R Cwithin, post: 5154788, member: 75712"] Thanks for all the responses. It looks like the the "no penalty" folks have it, which is what I was thinking, as well. As Stream noted, it's underpowered anyway, so no party will be consistently winning battles by using this tactic. Frankly, I was thinking of it as a "last resort" tactic: you're 1st level, surrounded by zombies and skeletons, a broken sword in one hand, a discarded femur in the other, and desperately in need of a break. Reminds of university, actually. @Aluvial: I tend to think of the off-hand penalty as applying only when the fighter is absolutely restricted to using that hand. For example, a character chained to a wall or hanging onto a precipice by his primary hand would suffer the off-hand penalty. And of course, when TWFing, the off-hand is actively involved in trying to land a blow, as is the primary: there's no choice. On the other hand (so to speak), in the case I was noting, the off-hand is just holding another weapon; the wielder is switching weapons from hand to hand as the rounds progress, but he's still just mainly fighting with his primary hand. Meh, it's not terribly logical, but I can justify it in a hand-wavy way. Or even an off-hand-wavy way. ;) [/QUOTE]

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