Fighting with two weapons


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I have came up with an idea for a Monkey Goblin who is a balded scarf magus. I was wondering if I use two of them but only attack 1 at any time do i get the penalty for "wielding" them both at the same time still?


Unfortunately, the magus's spell combat requires "one hand free (even if the spell being cast does not have somatic components), while wielding a light or one-handed melee weapon in the other hand."

Not much room to get around that, except for specific exceptions. To date, the only thing that lets you spell combat while wielding two weapons (or a two-handed weapon) is the mindblade magus, found in the new occult adventures book.


MaxManAtArms wrote:
I have came up with an idea for a Monkey Goblin who is a balded scarf magus. I was wondering if I use two of them but only attack 1 at any time do i get the penalty for "wielding" them both at the same time still?

While Johnny_Devo's comment is correct about needing a free hand for magus abilities, to answer your question, you can wield two weapons, but only take two-weapon fighting penalties if actually using them for more than your iterative attacks. If you have a +6 BAB, you can attack once with your left for +6 and right for +1, or right for +6 and left for +1, or right for both +6 and +1, or left for both +6 and +1. Making more attacks than this is where you are 'two-weapon fighting', and that's where the added penalties come in.


Thank you CraziFuzzy. That is what I was looking for.

@Johnny_devo I understand about casting for the magus.I was thinking of Rp effect since I'm literally going to have my monkey goblin "dance fight" and the "scarf" would be mainly "flair" and show and worst case i could free action drop one of them to cast a needed spell.

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