When weilding a one or two handed weapon with both hands you add half again your strength bonus to the damage dealt, what (if anything) happens if you have a strength penalty?
Wielding a Weapon Two-Handed
When you deal damage with a weapon that you are wielding two-handed, you add 1-1/2 times your Strength bonus (Strength penalties are not multiplied). You don't get this higher Strength bonus, however, when using a light weapons with two hands.
Thanks for that, but it brings up the question, should it mitigate the penalty?
It doesn't seem to but you'd think it would.
You still add the penalty normally to your melee weapon damage (1x), no matter if you wield the weapon one or two-handed. It just doesn't get multiplied.
That what you mean?
Yeah that's what I meant, I would have guessed that it would reduce the penalty though, perhaps by half (to a min of -1) or just by one.
It's mostly just an academic question though, the group I play with would pass up a twenty on something their class needs to avoid an eight on anything else.
I mostly got to thinking about it since I rolled a Cleric of Iomdae with an 8 in strength and it got me thinking.