I've been looking at the multi-weapon fighting rules, and relevant thread posts, all day. For some reason though I haven't been able to find any ruling on whether a character with, say, four arms can wield a two handed weapon with one pair, and a pair of light or one handed weapons with the other two hands. Can someone tell me if such a rule exists? If it doesn't, I would appreciate input on whether or not to allow this.
A creature with three or more hands that has weapons in all of them takes a -6 to a single primary hand and -10 to all other weapon attacks unless it has the multiweapon fighting feat which reduces these penalties to -2 and -6.
I'd allow a player to wield a combination of 2h and 1h weapons as long as it physically made sense that the creature could do so. Using a 4 handed creature as an example, I'd allow them to use any of the following combinations: 2 2h weapons, 1 2h & 2 1h weapons, 4 1h weapons. The player would have to pick one attack as his primary and the rest count as secondary attacks.
There probably isn't a rule for it, but a weapon wielded with two off-hands should get full strength damage, rather than half strength.
Basically, the primary hand get full strength damage, the off hand gets half strength damage and each extra hand on the weapon gets and additional half strength damage.
A four-handed creature with MWF could use any of the following attack routines (ignoring everything in the to-hit bonus except MWF penalties and assuming light weapons in the off hand(s)):
To Hit Strength multiplier
+0...........x2.5 (4 handed weapon)
-2/-2........x2/x0.5 (3 handed and 1 handed)
-2/-2........x1.5/x1 (2 handed and 2 handed)*
-2/-2/-2.....x1.5/x0.5/x0.5 (2,1,1 handed)
-2/-2/-2.....x1/x1/x0.5 (1 handed primary, 2 handed off hand, 1 handed off hand)*
-2/-2/-2/-2..x1/x0.5/x0.5/x0.5 (4 1 handed weapons)
* A two-handed weapon in the off hands probably cannot use a light weapon, so the attacks would actually be -4.
It should be possible to wield a two-handed weapon with three hands, just like you can wield a one-handed weapon with two. Four hands on a single weapon probably requires a specially built weapon.
Note that in all cases, if all of the attacks hit, you get x2.5 strength damage. This is similar to the standard case, where you get 1.5 strength damage over all attacks at full BAB, regardless of whether you are using a TWF or THF.
Hmm, thanks for the ideas guys.
I think those strength/hit modifiers will work just fine for my situation, thanks udalrich.
Note that in all cases, if all of the attacks hit, you get x2.5 strength damage. This is similar to the standard case, where you get 1.5 strength damage over all attacks at full BAB, regardless of whether you are using a TWF or THF.
So we'd then add back in STR damage if the multi-limbed monster had Double Slice? (Would there be a follow-up Quadruple Slice or Multislice Feat?)
I don't think someone can take double slice if they're using multiweapon fighting. Double slice has two weapon fighting as a pre-req, and that feat is distinct from multiweapon fighting.
I don't think someone can take double slice if they're using multiweapon fighting. Double slice has two weapon fighting as a pre-req, and that feat is distinct from multiweapon fighting.
I kind of think there would be some sort of equivalent for a multi-weapon fighter