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Great weapon Fighting not activating when using longsword in two hands mode.
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Just noticed this today, it seems to not be working at all. Great sword no reroll for GWF

GWM is for Heavy weapons. Long swords wont trigger the bonus damage.

GWM is the Feat.

GWF is the Fighter/Ranger Fighting Style that lets you reroll 1s and 2s on damage from weapons wielded in 2 hands.

OP is correct, GWF should reroll that 1. However, I don't know if it did reroll the 1, and it just happened to roll a 1 again (which is then kept as GWF only rerolls the dice once)

Ah, I understand now. Yeah, that is odd.

Just updated the post with results from a fight today

I Just restarted to instead add dueling as a fighting style, since GWF is not working right, and got these results. On an added side not for the argument that im two handing a Long sword, I do not see an option to one hand it for a minimum damage of 6 instead of 4.

Dueling also not working

Try stealing Shadowheart's shield and see if it applies the +2 damage properly when you're sword & boarding

Also I know there's a toggle switch under the attack buttons, I think it's labeled as something like "one handed/dual wield" try switching that and see if it changes it

Thanks Ill check it out.

If it works, let us know, because I've been thinking about doing a sword & board fighter or ranger

I discovered two things, When holding a 1h only melee weapon the bonus shows, However There is no option to 1 hand a Longsword. I have yet to try the shield, Although the perk does state the off hand has to be empty, if i recall correctly. Rapier

The offhand can't have a weapon in it, the pen and paper rules allow a shield in the offhand with dueling style, that's the whole point of it (it's designed to compensate for the loss of damage compared to TWF and 2-handed)

I tried Sword and board, It does work with a shield. On a related note i'm playing Eldritch knight and i'm not getting casting penalty's for not having a free hand, i'm not sure if that's intended.
Dueling works with shield.

Hmm, they might have dropped that because in theory the only issue with a lack of free hand in the PnP game is that you can't cast things that need somatic components, they have have dropped that so they don't have to keep track of components, there aren't any focuses in the game yet either..