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Offline Masakan

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Clarification on 2 weapon fighting..
« on: October 21, 2016, 02:34:56 PM »
Cause I may have been reading this wrong for years.
It says that you may get a second attack on the same round if you have a second weapon in your off hand.
Does this attack HAVE to be part of a full-attack action?

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Re: Clarification on 2 weapon fighting..
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2016, 02:44:47 PM »
Yes

I can't search the exact quote right now, but there's a rule of "you can never make more than one attack as a standard action" (of course specific>general, but two weapon fighting doesn't say you get the second attack as part of a standard action attack)

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Re: Clarification on 2 weapon fighting..
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2016, 03:48:33 PM »
Quote from: phb pg 143
Full Attack

If you get more than one attack per round because your base attack bonus is high enough, because you fight with two weapons or a double weapon or for some special reason you must use a full-round action to get your additional attacks. You do not need to specify the targets of your attacks ahead of time. You can see how the earlier attacks turn out before assigning the later ones.
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Re: Clarification on 2 weapon fighting..
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2016, 03:56:09 PM »
Quote from: phb pg 143
Full Attack

If you get more than one attack per round because your base attack bonus is high enough, because you fight with two weapons or a double weapon or for some special reason you must use a full-round action to get your additional attacks. You do not need to specify the targets of your attacks ahead of time. You can see how the earlier attacks turn out before assigning the later ones.

Damn that would have made it so much more appealing