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I'm currently wondering if there is a penalty for making an attack with your "offhand" even if you are only making that single "offhand" attack.
Example: I'm in a sword duel and it's obvious that I'm about to lose so my character "cheats" pulls his pistol from his belt with his left hand and fires at his opponent as his attack action.
Does this attack carry a penalty for it being made with my left hand?
If that is your only attack for that round, then it is not an "off-hand" attack, but a primary one. If that is a secondary attack, then normal off-hand attack rules come into play.
AFAIK the rules don't specify whether an off-hand attack gets a penalty if you only attack with that weapon.
Three options I see are:
1. No penalties to the attack if that is the only attack made that round.
2. -2 penalty to the attack due to it being your off-hand (though with guns it really depends on your eye dominance not handedness).
3. Normal penalties for two-weapon fighting except you only make one attack.
I personally would go with #1 or #2 but you may want to let the GM decide.
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By RAW, there is no 'handedness' in Pathfinder. "Off" hand is just a generic term that refers usually to the weapon that is less effective, used less often, or is of the light variety. If you wield two short swords, which both qualify as the light, "off hand" weapon, you could switch, round to round which is the "primary" attack weapon and which is the "off-hand." A TWF can make a single attack with either weapon, without penalty, as long as s/he doesn't also attack with the other hand. You could draw the pistol with your empty hand and fire, while still holding your sword. I also believe that firearms are ranged weapons and as such, would provoke if fired with an adjacent opponent.
IF YOU MOVE AND AS A STD ACTION PERFORM AN ATTACK, CAN YOU ATTACK WITH BOTH MAIN AND OFFNAHD EAPONS?
No.
Also wow one hell of a thread necro.
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IF YOU MOVE AND AS A STD ACTION PERFORM AN ATTACK, CAN YOU ATTACK WITH BOTH MAIN AND OFFNAHD EAPONS?No.
Also wow one hell of a thread necro.
And we now know that the Thread Necromancy spell has verbal components for sure. I mean, verbal components do have to be loud, after all.
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IF YOU MOVE AND AS A STD ACTION PERFORM AN ATTACK, CAN YOU ATTACK WITH BOTH MAIN AND OFFNAHD EAPONS?
If you make more than a single attack in a round, it pretty much always has to be a full attack. There is a fighter archetype that can attack with both as a standard action, but past that, then pretty much no- not unless something grants you a specific ability like that.
Now, because I can't hold it in: STD action? Is that some kind of grapple check? You might want to see the cleric for a remove disease about that... mummy rot... my friend. Does it deal 1d6 fire damage when you go to the bathroom?
...sorry, I couldn't resist.