Two Weapon Fighting and Strength Minimum

[mallet]

I couldn't find anything about this in books or in the FAQ, but I was wondering if there was an official ruling on it.

 

When using Two Weapon Fighting with Hand to Hand weapons should you add the strength minimums of both weapons together to determine either DC bonuses or OCV negatives?

 

For example a fighter with STR 15 has two weapon fighting and is using two swords each with a STR minimum of 10. Should the GM add both STR Min's together, getting a STR Min of 20 to use both weapons effectively (so the fighter in this example would be 5 STR short) or, since he has enough STR to handle each weapon by itself, there is no need to worry about using them at the same time?

[Steve Long]

Re: Two Weapon Fighting and Strength Minimum

 

No, you don’t have to add the STR Minima together or anything like that. The STR Minimum for each weapon applies to that weapon. As stated on 6E2 77, “Unless noted otherwise, the standard rules for Adding Damage (6E2 ???) apply to Multiple Attack. Any method used to add damage applies equally and in full to all attacks in the Multiple Attack that it can affect; it doesn’t have to be “divided” among the various attacks.”