Durge the Dual Axe's page

Agree'd

Also a lvl 5 fighter is going to destroy a lvl 5 commoner. Apply you as the commoner and a soldier as the fighter. What you said there is a matter of levels and/or classes really.

Which is why there is an archetype or feat. You can't expect a noncombat trained person to pick up two weapons and be good with them. You would have to train with them and thus in the DnD world granting you the two-weapon fighting feat if you have the dex to do it that is. Monkey Grip or Jotungrip are the same concept. I am a physically powerful person so whenever I do it I can do it effectively because I can still swing the weapon using this technique and gain even more damage on my attack. Think of it as applying power-attack. Regardless with my strength I can still use it in other ways.

Also it would have a decent reach.

Also I do really think that would be really effective against someone trained in combat because you would be able to do a lot of damage. Weaknesses can be easily spotted such as limited variability of how to swing it and slow. Guess what else has those problems though? A greatsword.

What you just said there is pointless, anyone can be trained to null any other combat effect. The whole martial arts system in South America that is combined with dance for example is completely nulled by waiting until they get tired and then going all out on them. Wearing armor is nulled by sundering it. Having feet is nulled by cutting them off and so on so forth. Anyone can be trained to null a specific effect and in DnD it all comes down to what the dice say.

It's all about the technique and the application of physics upon a weapon. Anyone who trains to do it and knows how should be able to do it effectively. There are all kinds of things humans can do that people wouldn't expect. Truth is we are going off of theories. I have used a weapon in this fashion when I was younger against people trying to steal my bike and was successful. I am and always have been a strong individual though so I don't think anyone could just pick up and do this and in reality it would probably be better to just dual wield two dwarven waraxes than two great axes anyways but I would like the mental image.

Ok so I just want to point out that in 3.5 there was a feat called monkey grip in one of the complete books, probably warrior, that allowed you to wield a two-handed weapon in one hand with a -2 penalty. 3.5 is extremely limiting so the fact that 3.5 allowed it to happen surprises me that pathfinder hasn't come up with a feat for it. Perhaps this would unbalance the game when including pathfinders other modifications to the feat selection. Anyways my point is that it can be done. I have been in real life fights where I have used something that I could easily wield in two hands but used it only in one hand by pressing the weapon against my hip and swinging it with my hand. Effectively my hand is applying force to the weapon to force it to go a direction and my body is preventing the bottom part of the weapon from moving with the top part. I could easily see this being applied to a big spear or axe. In some games you have to have a certain strength score in order to do it and still take some sort of penalty. My point is realistically it can be done but pathfinder has created no window for this to happen. Now weapons that are made for giants are a different story as those things might be the size of a person and therefore just too unwieldy.

Well so barbarians can do it. So does that mean I am a barbarian in real life?