[Martial Arts] New perk idea: Two and a Half Hands

[Michael Thayne]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

I'm not sure your perk does this either. Instead of having a swordsman master one skill for the sword, you have them still needing both skills, but now getting the benefits of both one and two-handed use.

This also doesn't really reflect any possible real world training because most of the benefits of two-handed use are very much a consequence of grip.

Although I am not sure why Weapon Adaptation doesn't work here.

So the thing about Weapon Adaptation, the canonical uses are all cases of using non-fencing weapons with fencing skills, which explicitly does give "fencing parries, superior retreats, and encumbrance penalties". In other use-cases, it's unclear what "all of the benefits and drawbacks of that skill" means, because you need to be able to distinguish between feature of the skill vs. feature of the weapon or grip. But maybe I'm overthinking this.