House Rules 10: Paired Weapons, Simultaneous Strikes, Flip

[t0m]

Im not a power balance-lawyer, but shouldnt there be some down side to using paired weapons?

you lose the ability to auto-parry which can really suck in multiple combat. i have seen a fight where the paired guy was out of attacks before his turn even came around, and there were still more incoming attacks to deal with after that...

[Phadeout]

We dont use the 'loss of auto-parry' rule, as it seems illogical.

"Let me understand, if I have one weapon I can use that said same weapon to strike and then parry an unlimited number of attacks made against me... okay. But if I have two weapons, doubling the ammount of steel I have at my disposal to throw between me and my enemy, I have to use more effort to block it? ... yeah..."

Feel free to disagree, but I just dont see the logic in it. Conversly, halving bonuses to either parry or strike while dual-weilding seems to make sense to me: You're splitting your attention, so why not your bonuses? The up being that, if you're a natural/ OCC trained dual -wielder and are facing a single opponent you can just split your parry bonus +all/+0, basically using a single hand to parry with and making it as effective as a single use weapon.

I agree, but I wouldn't allow Parry/Strike bonuses to be split up independently of each other.