Two-Weapon & Multi-Weapon Fighting
A character may split the normal complement of their attacks between all weapons they are equipped with, though they must suffer the Off-Hand penalty where appropriate. Two-Weapon Fighting penalties only begin to apply as bonus attacks are gained. By default, a character making an Unarmed Attack may only gain one bonus attack from their offhand, headbutts, slams and kicks - all of these are considered Offhands for purposes of use.
Multi-Weapon Bonus Attacks
A character can increase their number of attacks in a round by using more than one weapon - or by attacking with their other hand. A character can gain a bonus attack using the weapon in their off-hand. They must use at least one of their attacks on the off-hand weapon - it does not need to be the bonus attack, however. The character may gain a bonus attack for each 'hand' they have, as defined by Main-Hand vs Off-Hand and each 'hand' that grants a bonus must be used at least once.
Wielding weapons in this manner causes a penalty To-Hit - each attack suffers the penalty listed below. If half (or more) of the Weapons used are defined as Light Weapons, it is uses the Light column - it does not matter if more base attacks are used on non-Light weapons, only that half of the Weapons that will attack are Light.
Two Hands may be used to wield a Two-Handed weapon - this lowers the amount of attacks due to the available number of hands, however.
Multi-Weapon To-Hit Modifiers
Every Bonus attack gained whilst the character qualifies for Light Two-Weapon/Multi-Weapon Fighting causes all attacks to suffer a -2 penalty. Every Bonus attack gained whilst the character does not qualify for Light Two-Weapon/Multi-Weapon Fighting causes all attacks to suffer a -4 penalty.
The first table lists attacks made without Off-Hand penalties, including for weapons that are smaller than the character by two sizes or more. After One Size Category larger, penalties continue to increase by 4 points per Size Category.
| Multi-Weapon Fighting Penalties | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifies as... | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Light | -2 | -4 | -6 | -8 | -10 | -12 | -14 | -16 | -18 | -20 |
| Non-Light | -4 | -8 | -12 | -16 | -20 | -24 | -28 | -32 | -36 | -40 |
| Multi-Weapon Offhand Fighting Penalties (1 Size Smaller) | ||||||||||
| Qualifies as... | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Light | -4 | -6 | -8 | -10 | -12 | -14 | -16 | -18 | -20 | -22 |
| Non-Light | -6 | -10 | -14 | -18 | -22 | -26 | -30 | -34 | -38 | -42 |
| Multi-Weapon Offhand Fighting Penalties (Same Size) | ||||||||||
| Qualifies as... | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Light | -6 | -8 | -10 | -12 | -14 | -16 | -18 | -20 | -22 | -24 |
| Non-Light | -8 | -12 | -16 | -20 | -24 | -28 | -32 | -36 | -40 | -44 |
| Multi-Weapon Offhand Fighting Penalties (1 Size Larger) | ||||||||||
| Qualifies as... | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Light | -10 | -12 | -14 | -16 | -18 | -20 | -22 | -24 | -26 | -28 |
| Non-Light | -12 | -16 | -20 | -24 | -28 | -32 | -36 | -40 | -44 | -48 |
The Multi-Weapon Style of Combat Styles allows the character to reduce these penalties.
