I'm building a fencer/duelist for a campaign atm, and I started looking for a dagger that could be used as a main gauche for parrying and such, but found surprisingly, there isn't one. Has anyone homebrewed something like that? Maybe something that gives a +1 AC when wielded with a finnesse weapon in the main-hand?
At the moment, the closest effect to fighting with main gauche I can recall is using Two-Weapon Defense feat.
Hmm, actually, the main gauche is pretty much identical to a sai, in that it's a parrying dagger. Looks like the Pathfinder sai is used for disarming rather than parrying though. :/
Edit: Oh, and sundering.
I did one here: Main Gauche. It is quite unofficial, however.
Master Arminas
I found that the closest mechanical thing I could find that provided parry-like features were "blocking" and "distracting". I basically made a martial version of the dagger that gained one of those properties and one that gained the other. Same damage, same crit, just added the property. Oh, and I made rogues proficient in it because making them spend a feat on it seemed silly.
Both those properties are from Ultimate Combat.
Blocking: When you use this weapon to fight defensively, you gain a +1 shield bonus to AC.
Distracting: You gain a +2 bonus on Bluff skill checks to feint in combat while wielding this weapon.
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Crap I think I have actually seen one stated out before... AHH! Here it is wrist knife from Nyambe, adventures in africa. It's 3.0 I believe but should work ok and if you work with you gm you can probably fiddle with it to make it more Main Gauche'y. If that doesn't work I would say focus on the two weapon defense angle as that would match the theme rather well (as through a feat it shows the training a dedication your character has taken to his work), though i would go with short sword instead of dagger.