Hi, first post so sorry if this is poorly formatted or has been answered before.
So the socket bayonet from Rasputin Must Die!
-Bayonet, Socket: A socket bayonet fits onto a lug mounted on the barrel of some modern firearms. It has the same statistics as a bayonet, but a firearm fitted with a bayonet lug can be fired while the bayonet is in place, albeit with a –2 penalty on attack rolls. Each bayonet is designed for a specific model of firearm.
Can it be used with Two-Weapon Fighting/Sword and Pistol, as it doesn't interfere with making firearm attacks? That's why the standard bayonet doesn't work, I know. I feel that under RAW it doesn't, but Lord am I trying to make this weapon work, and there's a solid logical argument for it.
-Two-Weapon Fighting: If you wield a second weapon in your off hand, you can get one extra attack per round with that weapon. You suffer a –6 penalty with your regular attack or attacks with your primary hand and a –10 penalty to the attack with your off hand when you fight this way. You can reduce these penalties in two ways. First, if your off-hand weapon is light, the penalties are reduced by 2 each. An unarmed strike is always considered light. Second, the Two-Weapon Fighting feat lessens the primary hand penalty by 2, and the off-hand penalty by 6.
The socket bayonet doesn't work because isn't wielded off hand, it's a second two-handed weapon . . . that you wield simultaneous with the firearm? Obviously that seems wrong. The easy answer is to treat it as a double weapon, but that would be by GM fiat, not the rules. Is there something I'm missing, or a trick to get around this?