Reducing Two-Weapon Fighting Penalties

[AndrewD2]

Is there a way to reduce the attack penalty on attacks granted by the two weapon fighting chain of feats?

I'm working on a new version of the feats and for example Greater Two Weapon Fighting has

"At 18th level, reduce the penalties on this attack to -5"

But the attack is granted by a tag and I'm not sure of the underlying code for it.

 

[Aaron]

Not sure what you're trying to accomplish? You want to reduce the penalty on the second attack of a full attack only?

 

[AndrewD2]

Two-Weapon Fighting, Improved Two-Weapon Fighting and Greater Two-Weapon fighting each add additional attack with the off-hand, but they each have a penalty. As the character levels up I need to reduce the penalty on the attack. Here's the full text of the 3 feats

Your penalties on attack rolls for fighting with two weapons are reduced. The penalty for your primary hand lessens by 2 and the one for your off hand lessens by 6.

At 7th level, the penalties for fighting with two weapons are reduced by an additional - 1.

At 14th level, the penalties for fighting with two weapons are reduced by an additional - 1.

In addition to the standard single extra attack you get with an off-hand weapon, you get a second attack with it, albeit at a - 5 penalty.

At 13th level, reduce the off-hand attack penalty for this attack to -3.

At 20th level, reduce the off-hand attack penalty for this attack to 0.

Benefit: You get a third attack with your off-hand weapon, albeit at a - 10 penalty.

At 18th level, the penalty to your third attack with your off-hand is reduced to -5.

 

[Aaron]

I don't think we have anything that granular, there is a tag which reduces secondary attack penalties for all attacks by 5, but nothing that is on a per-weapon basis.

 

[AndrewD2]

Hmm, that is unfortunate.

 

[andrewm9]

Hmm, that is unfortunate.

Doesn't the two weapon fighter archetype from the Advanced Player's Guide have an ability you could look at or am I misinterpreting what you want?

 

[Aaron]

Ah, it looks like there is something there, but it reduces all the TWF penalties, not the number for the 2nd and third attack. So it'd be good for the first feat in the chain, but maybe not for the latter two.

Ideally we'd have different fields for the 2nd and 3rd and 4th attack with a weapon, but that sort of thing could have big ramifications, so it'd have to be a change carefully considered and thoroughly tested.