Off Hand Penalty and Two weapon fighting

[Savaad]

What is the offhand penalty for a character?
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[Matthias777]

I don't know that it's in any official rules anywhere, but I always assumed -1D. Something else I started thinking about the past couple of years...what about firing a handgun one-handed vs. two-handed? I know in the Star Wars movies they usually fire one-handed, but have you ever tried that? I can't hit a blessed thing firing a handgun one-handed. Now two-handed, I can put holes in all manner of targets. But it's a huge difference. Thoughts?
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[garhkal]

Yupo. Nothing official i have heard of, though the -1d is a common penalty i have seen applied.
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[Phalanks Balas]

Well for a weapon on off hand I use to apply -1D and raise difficulty by one level.

For 2hands melee weapon I apply 2nd revised combined action rule : I give a bonus of +2 for attaque and melee parry.
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[Matthias777]

[vong]

hmm, yea. up the diff, or the -1d, i dont think both.
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[ifurin]

i had a player who wanted to fight with two vibroblades. this is what we decided on; normally you take 2 actions and get two attacks (-1d), 1 attack, then evaryone else goes then you get your second attack. if you dual-wield then 2 actions and both are attacks then it would go like this; each 1 attack you get two strikes,both hits have +1 difficulty due to rushing. then everyone else takes their action and then you take your second action. if the second action was also dual-wielding then it will go like the first action. the down side is it essentially taking 4 actions so all attacks are at -4d. but you at least get to hit 2 times before your enemy. (i hope all this made sense)

[vong]

ahh, that makes sense. an interesting way of doing things
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[Matthias777]

That sounds about right; I like it. Although wouldn't it be a -3D multiple action penalty instead of -4D? Unless he has a Dodge in there somewhere as well.
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[ifurin]

we disregarded the first "action free" rule since the character is rushing to attack a little quicker than normal.

[Matthias777]

Ah, I see. Personally I try not to apply two separate penalties for the same thing (in this case rushing the action). I'd stick with the difficulty modifier for rushing, but change it from +1 to maybe +3, or at most +5. I'd leave the extra -1D stuff to MAPs.
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[Tupteq]

I'm using following (I think I took them from D6 Space) two weapon fighting rules:

[OtterJethro]

We don't play where there is an "off-hand" when using multiple wepons because we assume the have trained themselves to be ambedextrious. I mean if you are teaching and training to use a lightsaber and want to use 2, you would train both hands to be equally useful.
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