Kensai and TWF


3.5/d20/OGL


I was just curious if anyone else has run into this. I was thinking about making a Kensai(Complete Warrior) that used a pair of signature weapons and Two Weapon Fighting, but I'm not entirely sure I can do so. In the class features, it mentions rules for the archetype single weapon, all your natural weapons, and even double-weapons(pay the XP for both ends) but no actual ruling for a pair of weapons.

Would it be fair to say, that since it does mention double-weapons, we could assume a signature pair would work as well?


I would rule so, as long as the player always and only wielded them as a set.


I would allow it under the same ruling as double weapons, so long as the character had weapon focus for both weapons.


John Landan wrote:
I would allow it under the same ruling as double weapons, so long as the character had weapon focus for both weapons.

I was actually just thinking about that. If a character wielded two different weapons (longsword/shortsword) they'd need 2 Weapon Focus feats.... ouch. I tend to use matching weapons, 2 short swords, 2 battle axes(oversized 2 wep fighting feat) but at the end of the day it all comes back to either spending an additional feat, or wield smaller weps. Oh well, a small price to pay for good character flavor!

Orthos wrote:
I would rule so, as long as the player always and only wielded them as a set.

Ooh, I just got an idea. Maybe TWF with a sword and shield set, ala Cassandra or Sophitia from Soul Calibur kinda style...

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