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Does Dual-Wielding = Double Damage?
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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8990217" data-attributes="member: 6877472"><p>There are a few double strike techniques in martial arts, but the thing you really need to consider with dual wielding is that doing that has a major impact on defense. Unlike in a video game, you really don't want to have a large profile in combat, which is exactly what trying to hit one guy with two weapons is generally doing. I've seen some fancy acrobatics done where a guy whirls around to strike with one sword right after the other, but while that looks cool, it seems of fairly dubious value.</p><p></p><p>I personally like how Legend of the Five Rings handles it; the Mirumoto school (not unlike the real life Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu) does teach you to use both the Katana (long sword) and Wakizashi (short sword), but the primary benefit is defensive, giving you a second way to defend yourself.</p><p></p><p>Then it moves into making your opponent unsure of which weapon you're going to strike with (analogous to granting advantage to your attack), and only masters gain a second attack.</p><p></p><p>[SPOILER="As an aside"]It's interesting the ups and downs D&D has had with dual wielding; in 2e, you had serious attack penalties, but very quickly warriors found ways to negate them, and dual wielding became godly if you had any kind of damage bonus (such as high Strength). 3e kept the accuracy hit, made it very hard to get rid of it, and halved your Strength bonus with the off hand weapon, keeping them largely worse than using a two handed weapon. 4e required specific attack powers to do it, and the most common of these (Twin Strike) removed any stat mods to damage.</p><p></p><p>And now we have 5e, which requires a bonus action, takes away the stat buff to your off hand weapon without a specialized Fighting Style, and prevents you from using weapons of equal size without a Feat; this stops being efficient by level 5.[/SPOILER] </p><p></p><p>Someone saying that two swords should do twice the damage reminds me of Lloyd from Tales of Symphonia: "If one sword has a power of 100, then two swords have a power of 200!".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8990217, member: 6877472"] There are a few double strike techniques in martial arts, but the thing you really need to consider with dual wielding is that doing that has a major impact on defense. Unlike in a video game, you really don't want to have a large profile in combat, which is exactly what trying to hit one guy with two weapons is generally doing. I've seen some fancy acrobatics done where a guy whirls around to strike with one sword right after the other, but while that looks cool, it seems of fairly dubious value. I personally like how Legend of the Five Rings handles it; the Mirumoto school (not unlike the real life Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu) does teach you to use both the Katana (long sword) and Wakizashi (short sword), but the primary benefit is defensive, giving you a second way to defend yourself. Then it moves into making your opponent unsure of which weapon you're going to strike with (analogous to granting advantage to your attack), and only masters gain a second attack. [SPOILER="As an aside"]It's interesting the ups and downs D&D has had with dual wielding; in 2e, you had serious attack penalties, but very quickly warriors found ways to negate them, and dual wielding became godly if you had any kind of damage bonus (such as high Strength). 3e kept the accuracy hit, made it very hard to get rid of it, and halved your Strength bonus with the off hand weapon, keeping them largely worse than using a two handed weapon. 4e required specific attack powers to do it, and the most common of these (Twin Strike) removed any stat mods to damage. And now we have 5e, which requires a bonus action, takes away the stat buff to your off hand weapon without a specialized Fighting Style, and prevents you from using weapons of equal size without a Feat; this stops being efficient by level 5.[/SPOILER] Someone saying that two swords should do twice the damage reminds me of Lloyd from Tales of Symphonia: "If one sword has a power of 100, then two swords have a power of 200!". [/QUOTE]
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