Two-Weapon Fighting

[Wolven18259]

Hey Guys,
I'm semi new to Pathfinder, only casually playing but hopefully I'll start to be running a few games. I have a question regarding Two-Weapon Fighting as well as the Attack bonus for fighting whilst using the two weapons. What I'm using is a Fighter with the Long sword and spiked shield technique. I do have the Two-Weapon Fighting feat and my Attack bonus is +5. If I am attacking, does that make the penalty even for my primary hand (0) and my off hand penalty -2? If not, could someone please enlighten me on how this works?
Thanks Guys.

[Blymurkla]

Is there a reason you posted this under the Third-Party category? Your post doesn't mention any 3pp sources, but if you are relying on such rules my answer below can be rendered entirely moot.

There's a table under the headline Two-Weapon Fighting on this PRDpage. You've gotta scroll way down (or search) to find it.

Anyway, in the table you can see that if you have the Two-Weapon Fighting feat and at least one of your weapons are light attacks with both your primary and off hand suffer a –2 penalty.

This matches up to the description in the feat in question ('normal' is –6/–10, one of the weapons is light gives you –4/–8 and the feat brings that down to –2/–2).

[Wolven18259]

Ahh, sorry my bad. I thought I posted this in the advise forum. Thank you for

[SorrySleeping]

Do note that the penalties only apply if making attacks with both weapons. This means just holding the off-hand weapon and only attacking with the main weapon does not give you these penalties. This includes a full round attack and a standard attack.

Unless you allow some third party stuff, you can't use a normal standard action attack and use both weapons. Also your off-hand weapon only deals 0.5x str damage, even if it is the only weapon used to attack.

[Evan Riggs]

also there is no ambi dexterity in pathfinder, you should say to your DM that this turn my off hand weapon is blank. so when you attack with the weapon that was your offhand you can avoid the 0.5 str issue.

why you would do it is only for full strength but that does mean you have to tell your DM your doing that each time you switch your intended handedness

now a thorough DM would make you pick one dominant hand over the other. but raw there is no hard fast rule saying you cant change which weapon is dominant from round to round. but without double slice your actual offhand attack is as said above only 1/2 str bonus, likewise off-handedness without double slice affects power attack too

[dragonhunterq]

Not only can you switch your active weapon round by round you can change weapons between attacks. You only have an off hand and thereby take 2 weapon penalties when you gain extra attacks beyond those granted by your BAB.