Buckle Your Swash: Sword & Pistols

[Sketchpad]

Hiya Gang,
My wife is playing an explorer in my Fantasy Hero game and she wants to make her proficient with both sword and pistol (as in black-powder). She wants to be able to use both in combat at the same time ... that way she can swipe and shoot if need be. I asked Steve about the Two-Weapon skills and it doesn't work that way. So I was curious if people have used this in a game? Does anyone have any house rules for this? I considered making a martial arts style for it, but I'm not 100% if that would solve the prob ... any suggestions?

[tkdguy]

:think: Is the character trying to do both actions in the same phase? Perhaps you could give penalties to both actions. Or you could houserule that two weapon fighting can work like that, except with a bigger penalty. I'd rule she would have to shoot at one target and stab someone else.

[Blue]

I've got a ticky way of doing multiple attacks with the same weapon, but not with two different weapons.

It does sound like you're going to have to impelement a house rule.

[austenandrews]

If that's the direction the campaign is going, I would house-rule it to allow 2WF with pistol and sword. Presumably you're not going to reload a black-powder weapon in the middle of a sword fight, so it's an inherently limited tactic. I'd also require 2WF to do it, as a significant barrier to entry.

Not sure how I'd work the mechanics. You've got two different sets of levels involved. 2WF's 1/2 DCV seems like a sufficient DCV penalty. I guess the sword levels could apply to DCV. Then it boils down to levels affecting the only OCV to which they apply.

-AA

[Dust Raven]

For something like this, I'd bypass 2WF altogether and buy from the source: Ambidexterity and CSLs with the sword/pistol combo.

I also wouldn't allow Multiple Power Attacks with that combo. I would allow a Sweep/Rapid Attack, however. Either violates the standard rules, but something like this should have substantial penalties and take quite amount of coordination.