Pathbuilder 2e Question for a Noob

[Gr8Tortuga]

Thanks in advance if you have a moment for this: How do you equip two weapons in Pathbuilder to illustrate Dual Wielding? Is it possible?

Warmest Regards,
Gr8Tortuga

[Dr. Frank Funkelstein]

You can add any number of weapons, but Pathbuilder does not show what you wield, except for a "stow" option, that moves a weapon to the "gear" tab.

A VTT like foundry has handling for your hands, on a physical table you would manage that yourself.

[Gr8Tortuga]

Thanks for clarifying! Much appreciated.

Any ideas for how to best "get it right" if I'm playing at a table?

[Perpdepog]

Gr8Tortuga wrote:

Thanks for clarifying! Much appreciated.

Any ideas for how to best "get it right" if I'm playing at a table?

I imagine all you'd really need is to tell people which of your attacks you have in your hands, and then only use those attacks. There aren't really any special rules for duel wielding in PF2E; that stuff is simulated with feats like Double Slice. Just remember that, if you're wielding your longsword and your main-gauche, you can't also use your hand crossbow and you should be golden.

[BotBrain]

Perpdepog wrote:

Gr8Tortuga wrote:

Thanks for clarifying! Much appreciated.

Any ideas for how to best "get it right" if I'm playing at a table?

I imagine all you'd really need is to tell people which of your attacks you have in your hands, and then only use those attacks. There aren't really any special rules for duel wielding in PF2E; that stuff is simulated with feats like Double Slice. Just remember that, if you're wielding your longsword and your main-gauche, you can't also use your hand crossbow and you should be golden.

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Aye this is a big thing to know if you're coming from 5e. Dual wielding, on its own, doesn't confer any special abilities.

[Conscious Meat]

Right, just be clear -- preferably in exploration mode, before combat begins -- what's you're wielding and what you're doing with it.

It's entirely legal to start a combat with your shield raised, for instance -- but doing so is represented by the Defend exploration activity, which means that you were traveling at half speed at best, and that most characters will only have one other hand in which to be wielding things. If, for instance, your character has a one-handed weapon, a shield, *and* a lantern, it's going to be important to be explicit which of those you have ready. With certain items that can be used with one or two hands, one also needs to be clear since it takes an Interact action to go from one to two hands, and sometimes it takes an Interact action to go from two to one (e.g. jezails).

If you really do a lot of juggling as to what you're equipping, you could always use some physical tokens, differently-colored dice, cards or w/e to help you keep track.