Two Weapons / Multiple Attack

[Scott Adams]

At 07:47 PM 4/1/02 +0200, you wrote:
>I have been fascinated by the idea of two weapons, but I find the rules way
>too powerful. We had an Assassin in our group that could dish out well over
>a hundred damage at her top assassin level and two attacks. I felt the
>imbalance was far too great so I've modified the rules to make it much more
>difficult to learn and use it effectively. Any suggestions on this rule or
>a two handed weapon multiple attacks?

I have not used it enough to get a good field of use for comment.  Just here
and
there not enough say over the years..

>What about bow's? Didn't you love seeing Legolas shooting arrows like a
>gattling gun? I've made what I think is a great rule system for bow
>multiple attacks and I've spread a portion of that into 2 handed weapon
>multiple attacks. I think it will improve the desire of warriors to just
>use their missle weapons rather than melee all the time.

Yeah the reload times seem a bit tedious.  Its like fire once and bam that's
it before most combat ends.

>One more thing. I don't enjoy the race modifiers. I think they are limited
>and don't create the right diffence beyween the four main character races.
>I use an advanced system that allows the DM to create a character out of
>any creature in the creature list(though I don't allow the use all of them.
>What this does for me is realy creates a beautiful racial difference.
>Perhaps any ideas would be helpful in making my system better. I'm not
>going to reveal the information here, but if you e-mail me perhaps I will
>explain it.

Race modifiers don't bother me.  Its how you spread them out that
makes the difference.

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