Attack of Opportunity while dual weilding?

[Paco_Laburantes]

So here's an interesting question: my character is holding a club in his main-hand and a +2 shortsword in his off-hand. He does not have the double slice feat.

So if a enemy would provoke from him, can he choose which weapon to strike with or does it have to be the main hand? And if the AoO is with the shortsword would it still only have 1/2 strength bonus?

[Dasrak]

Paco_Laburantes wrote:

can he choose which weapon to strike with

Yes, he is threatening with both so he can use either.

Paco_Laburantes wrote:

or does it have to be the main hand?

Off-hand weapon attack penalties only come into play when making a full attack action to fight with two weapons. Attacks of opportunity are not two weapon fighting, so two weapon fighting penalties do not apply and all attacks are made as if they are your main hand weapon.

You can make the attack of opportunity with your short sword, and treat it as if it's your main hand.

You can also freely change which hand you treat as your main hand every time you attack. If you end up full-attacking a Zombie the next round, you can treat the short sword as your main hand weapon and the club as your off-hand weapon.

Paco_Laburantes wrote:

And if the AoO is with the shortsword would it still only have 1/2 strength bonus?

No, full strength bonus. Since you're not attacking with the club, you can just treat the short sword as your main hand weapon.

[TxSam88]

Basically when it comes to attacks, your character is ambidextrous and can treat either hand as their main weapon hand when making attacks.

[Azothath]

early on PF1 dumped "facing" and all occupied spaces became square. Thus a creature threatens within its or its weapon's reach in a squarish fashion (yeah - reach into corners officially flipped back and forth). So creatures are given the option if it exists to choose, a presumed maximal choice but they could choose what seems minimal. It's like spells - cast Acidic Spray or Acid Splash...

Since PF1 tried to be simple and generic it just references primary and off-hand so "ambidexterous" only has its english meaning and isn't defined in the Game. Some people want to say it is, others not so much. It is just undefined (like penalties due to enormous clown feet or being pregnant, they just aren't defined).
"handedness" arguments often go off the deep end ...