Twin-Tetsubo Style, Can It Be Done?


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Shadow Lodge

So, I've been looking back at some of my old 3.5 characters and concepts for inspiration of future Pathfinder characters. In doing this, I brought me back to a particular concept character. A half-oni(ogre)named Mimiharu, who could effectively wield a tetsubo in each hand. I wrote her up as a fighter/barbarian and utilized several feats and her racial features as the vehicle for this effect.

Now, to the present. I've been looking at the Titan Mauler barbarian and the Two-Weapon Warrior Fighter archetypes. I also have a copy of Blood of Fiends, which introduced the Oni-Spawn teifling heritage.

Tetsubo, being an exotic two-handed weapon.
Titan Mauler's Jotungrip and Massive Weapon abilities.
The Two-Weapon Warrior's abilities.
Oni Heritage trait

Using these as a frame of reference, Can I achieve the effect again?

*Note, I don't really care about the damage-output/practicallity so much as if I can do it without house-rules involved. i.e. PFS Legal*


It looks possible, yeah. Jotun Grip treats 2-handed weapons as 1-handed, and Improved Balance treats 1-handed weapons as light for the purposes of TWF.

I'm not sure where you're going to get the opportunity to play a character that doesn't do her thing until level 13, though.

Shadow Lodge

Which is fine by me. It came out to about the same level back in 3.5 too.
(Level 12 or there abouts.) :)


The Massive Weapon Titan Mauler ability will actually do nothing for you here, as it only applies for inappropriate sized weapons.

Shadow Lodge

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CrystalSpellblade wrote:
The Massive Weapon Titan Mauler ability will actually do nothing for you here, as it only applies for inappropriate sized weapons.

So, any idea as to what I could do? (While trying to stick to the original idea, I mean?)


Massive Weapon doesn't do anything for you (it actually doesn't do anything at all but that's because Paizo decided it was too strong) but Jotun Grip does. Titan Mauler 2/Two-Weapon Warrior 11 will give you what you want, no exceptions to it.


Jotungrip will get you into wielding them one-handed so you can get the idea going. It'll just be tougher to get the penalties down.

Shadow Lodge

You could theoretically skip the 2 levels of Titan Mauler by wielding Small-sized Tetsubos. Same Penalty, but you come online 2 levels earlier, have 1 more feat, no Rage, and you do 1d8 damage as opposed to 1d10. Could also get Impact on them to get the d10 damage, which while expensive, lets you do this sooner.

Shadow Lodge

EvilPaladin wrote:
You could theoretically skip the 2 levels of Titan Mauler by wielding Small-sized Tetsubos. Same Penalty, but you come online 2 levels earlier, have 1 more feat, no Rage, and you do 1d8 damage as opposed to 1d10. Could also get Impact on them to get the d10 damage, which while expensive, lets you do this sooner.

Wouldn't that only work if the character is small? I seem to recall that PFS legal teiflings may only be medium sized and human-based.

Or do you mean I should just play a fighter with undersized weapons?


He's saying use undersized weapons. A 2-h weapon is wielded as a 1-h weapon if its one size too small for you. You get the same -2 penalty as you'd have with jotungrip and average damage only goes down by 1 point per swing.

Shadow Lodge

Ah...That makes more sense.I think I might just go 2-wpn warrior and dip barbarian for rage effects. :)

Thanks Everyone!

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