More Off-Hand Options

[Draven]

For the time being, the only thing you can hold with your off-hand is a shield. I personally think it would be fun if there were more options, as well as more options for single handed weapons.

It would also add different ways of using your characters stats.
Example: A scholar with a wand in one hand and a tamborine in the other. The wand could give a basic attack and another ability of some sort both based on intellegince, where the tamborine could give one ability based on talent.
Maybe even make it so that you can dual-weild two weapons just to have more damaging ability options.

What do you guys think?

[bloodfire]

Yep a lot of people want more off hand actions.
- Duel wield daggers
- Shield Bash
- Combo Punches
- 2 Rapiers one to parry/reflect the other to attack (pirate style with the Gyoppa's Helm on) :D
– Throw alchemical potions
- Magic shield that reflects spells
- arm crossbow for ranged attack option for dagger wielders

There are a lot of cool things that could be done.

[Draven]

What if instead of letting anyone make multiple attack, they introduced a character that gets to act again whenever they get a critical hit. Or a speed focused character that ends up with rapid actions anyway.

[Cap'n Darwin]

You should really not get more than one "attack" per action, but getting either bonus damage and or defense from an off hand weapon would be cool. Another option would be additional action options taking into account the additional item in the off hand. That would cover a shield bash. The bigger issue is adding similar functions to the bad guys. Looking at a major update to pull off.