Single-Handed Fighting

[David Bofinger]

TFT characters generally make use of both hands. If their primary weapon is one-handed then they typically have a shield in the left hand because why not.

But it's my impression a lot of characters in fantasy literature don't. Take a look at the guy in the foreground of the cover of canon TFT, for instance: it's hard to be sure because he's still getting ready but he looks like he's planning to fight with an empty left hand. Glancing through advertisements for miniatures suggest at least some characters do as well. One could argue that using a shield or a two-handed weapon in a fantasy story tends to mark a character as a specialist warrior.

So would it make sense to do that in TFT? What if the skill to fight with both hands was something you had to buy? The warriors probably buy it from the start. The non-warriors might pick it up when they're more experienced, or not, but probably don't buy it during character generation because they have other things to buy that are more important to their jobs. Would that capture the feel of most fantasy characters better?