Timeline for Is the Oversized Two-Weapon Fighting feat not worth it?
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| Sep 21, 2023 at 17:11 | comment | added | KRyan | @nvoigt Even at 1st, +2 damage is very poor for a feat. | |
| Sep 21, 2023 at 15:06 | comment | added | nvoigt | As a dwarf, if I recall correctly, you can use a dwarven waraxe as one-handed weapon, which would boost the damage dice from two light (probably d6) weapons to two martial d10 weapons. Not bad for low level. That said, it probably sucks at high levels, I rarely play those. In the end, it's a very situational edge case and I would agree with your overall description. | |
| Sep 21, 2023 at 14:27 | comment | added | KRyan | @nvoigt Most of those allow you to choose a weapon (so you can just choose a light weapon, so Oversized Two-Weapon Fighting just means you do slightly more damage per point 1), and I can’t recall (off the top of my head) any locked to a specific one-handed weapon that are any good, but yes, in theory, there could be a corner case where the feat could be useful for that. | |
| Sep 21, 2023 at 14:11 | comment | added | nvoigt | It's been a long time since I did this, but doesn't this feat also have the indirect benefit of all the crappy weapon specific feats that you sometimes need as prerequisites for something applying to both of your weapons now, since you can have the same one-handed weapon in both hands, instead two different weapon types? | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 4:20 | comment | added | KRyan | @TerryWindwalker For what it’s worth, I did soften my statement somewhat; if you’re doing Power Attack + Two-Weapon Fighting, Oversized Two-Weapon Fighting is not “garbage.” It’s fine; unarmed strikes are better, but if you just don’t want unarmed strikes for whatever reason, Oversized Two-Weapon Fighting isn’t like, crippling or anything. But only for the Power Attack benefit, which is a pretty unusual combination. | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 4:04 | history | edited | KRyan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
a little bit more on the top, and acknowledgment that like, if you have your heart set on it or whatever, it’s not going to be simply non-viable or whatever.
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| Sep 18, 2023 at 3:39 | vote | accept | Terry Windwalker | ||
| Sep 18, 2023 at 3:35 | comment | added | KRyan | @TerryWindwalker As for Power Attack, Power Attack is, as mentioned in the answer, very rarely combined with Two-Weapon Fighting. Power Attack is used by people with two-handed weapons; Two-Weapon Fighting is used by people with sneak attack or similar. | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 3:34 | comment | added | KRyan | @TerryWindwalker 1. Damage dice don’t matter. Your damage comes from Power Attack or sneak attack or something else. (Or, grab a monk’s belt or Superior Unarmed Strike if it bothers you.) 2. Having a buff on you vs. your weapon is an interesting consideration, but an area dispel would hit magic weapon and a buff on you, while with magic fang only one buff on you is vulnerable—targeted dispels are probably more common, so you’re not wrong about that, but it does cut both ways to extent. 3. Magic Item Compendium pg. 233-234 waives the concern about amulet of health. | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 2:29 | comment | added | Terry Windwalker | I have considered unarmed strike and I thought it was a superior option for off-hands until I found out that 1) its damage dice is so small without a level of monk (non-lawful PCs would have issues on that), 2) its buff (magic fang) is considered personal buff which would more likely be dispelled than buffs targeting a weapon (magic weapon), 3) it takes a neck slot to buff it if via magical equipment (and amulet of health usually needs it). If the power attack is used to improve its dmg than the cost might be too high. If its for rogue, though, than it would be much less a problem. | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 1:31 | history | edited | KRyan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 18, 2023 at 1:23 | history | answered | KRyan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |