Originally Posted by clavis
Originally Posted by AghiTron
Dual Wielding only works with Light weapons, example: Daggers, Shortswords, Handaxes etc. The Dual Wielder feat available at 4th level allow any weapons usable with one hand be dual wielded. This is also how 5e works, and I have found the game not different.


Actually it states in book that (not word for word, mines upstairs atm, and having hard time walking) That dual wielding can be done with any one handed weapon, (just as in the real world), but you won't be able to use your modifier without certain feats, and you recieve negatives to your normal modifiers, this being more severe and normally starting out as -2 -6 or something. The use of feats such as dual wielding, and 2 weapon fighting allows you to use your modifiers to the damage of your rolls. and make the penalties for fighting with two weapons less. This is further reduced by wielding a light weapon in your off hand, or in each hand. which is why most people go with light weapons.

What your talking about is the feat itself, and the subclass of ranger/fighter.


The feat (Dual Wielder) actually does not provide the ability to add your modifier to off-hand attack damage actually, only the fighting style does, additionally, you do add your modifier to the attack hit chance regardless of the style, the style is only supposed to control whether you add your relevant modifier to the off-hand damage, without the fighting style you can not add the modifier to the damage. At least by the 5e rules. Additionally, you can't fight with two weapons unless the offhand weapon has the light property, OR you have the dual wielder feat as the feat itself gives you the following "You can use two-weapon fighting even when the one-handed melee weapons you are wielding aren't light."

Last edited by Zaxtaj; 09/10/20 11:26 PM.