Someone posted this on Discord and said this was Two Weapon fighting?
"Two-Weapon Fighting When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you’re holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you’re holding in the other hand"
Another posted something similar:
"I'm talking about Two-Weapon Fighting... y'know... when people use two light weapons on each hand, and can use a bonus action to attack with the second light weapon if they used their attack with the light weapon on the other hand. I'm not talking bout no feats, no fighting styles, no nothing?"
That sounds more like Dual Wielder, since Two Weapon Fighting just allows you to add your ability modifier and no other attacks. But people on there agreed with them that this is Two Weapon Fighting.
What you've quoted there are the rules for two-weapon fighting from the 2014 Player's Handbook. This is something anyone can do if they're holding two Light weapons: attack with one using their action, then with the other using a bonus action.
"Two-Weapon Fighting", with the capitals, is also the name of a fighting style option (or a fighting style feat in the 2024 rules) that adds your ability modifier to the damage of the bonus action attack. It's not required to use the base two-weapon fighting feature.
This confusing terminology is part of why the 2024 rules moved the concept of two-weapon fighting to being part of the rules for the Light property, and stopped calling it "two-weapon fighting".
Someone posted this on Discord and said this was Two Weapon fighting?
"Two-Weapon Fighting When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you’re holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you’re holding in the other hand"
Another posted something similar:
"I'm talking about Two-Weapon Fighting... y'know... when people use two light weapons on each hand, and can use a bonus action to attack with the second light weapon if they used their attack with the light weapon on the other hand. I'm not talking bout no feats, no fighting styles, no nothing?"
That sounds more like Dual Wielder, since Two Weapon Fighting just allows you to add your ability modifier and no other attacks. But people on there agreed with them that this is Two Weapon Fighting.
It's confusing in the app... but you're not alone on this, more people were confused about it:
Someone posted this on Discord and said this was Two Weapon fighting?
"Two-Weapon Fighting When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you’re holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you’re holding in the other hand"
Another posted something similar:
"I'm talking about Two-Weapon Fighting... y'know... when people use two light weapons on each hand, and can use a bonus action to attack with the second light weapon if they used their attack with the light weapon on the other hand. I'm not talking bout no feats, no fighting styles, no nothing?"
That sounds more like Dual Wielder, since Two Weapon Fighting just allows you to add your ability modifier and no other attacks. But people on there agreed with them that this is Two Weapon Fighting.
What you've quoted there are the rules for two-weapon fighting from the 2014 Player's Handbook. This is something anyone can do if they're holding two Light weapons: attack with one using their action, then with the other using a bonus action.
"Two-Weapon Fighting", with the capitals, is also the name of a fighting style option (or a fighting style feat in the 2024 rules) that adds your ability modifier to the damage of the bonus action attack. It's not required to use the base two-weapon fighting feature.
This confusing terminology is part of why the 2024 rules moved the concept of two-weapon fighting to being part of the rules for the Light property, and stopped calling it "two-weapon fighting".
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It's still labeled as such in character sheets under Bonus Actions, though. So...
It's confusing in the app... but you're not alone on this, more people were confused about it:
- https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/rules-game-mechanics/224541-2024-is-two-weapon-fighting-different-than-the?comment=4
- https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/rules-game-mechanics/219475-two-weapon-fighting-shows-up-as-bonus-action-on?comment=4
- https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/rules-game-mechanics/230512-dagger-mastery-nick-dual-wielder-two-weapon?comment=17
Worth noting that one of the big differences is you don't need to hold the two weapons at the same time RAW to benefit from the Light weapon property.
Yeah, they could've done a better job there.
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