Arelith

Description of Bug Experienced:

The Swashbuckler Feat (Insightful Strike) is either bugged or misworded in it's explanation.
On the wiki, it states the following:

While using a Swashbuckler Weapon, a Swashbuckler is able to use their knowledge of anatomy to deal extra damage and gains bonus damage equal to their intelligence modifier. This damage cannot exceed their Swashbuckler level.

Lose this bonus when wearing medium or heavy armor or when using a large shield or tower shield.

However, the same is not fully observed in game. One of my current characters is a Level 12 Swashbuckler - I use two finesseable weapons, shortswords (1d6), one as offhand and light armor and I noticed that sometimes my character rolls between 1 and 4 damage.
My hard intelligence modifier is +4, so there is no possibly way my character should roll anything below 5 damage.
Whilst using only one finesseable weapon, the feat works as intended, and I never got below 5 damage.
I find it strange that this happened, since the wiki specifically quotes that the bonus is lost only when using medium to heavy armor or a large shield.


Steps to reproduce the Bug: The bug appears to manifest itself when equipping a offhand weapon whilst the Insightful Strike feat is "active". I guess having a decent int modifier could help with testing the bug out.


Expected Result: Since it's not stated otherwise, the Insightful Strike bonus should be applied to the offhand weapon.


Actual Result: The offhand weapon is not getting any bonus damage from the INT modifier.


Screenshot(s)
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Additional Information/Notes
I am not sure if this intended or not - Discussing it on the discord yielded no conclusive results. I assumed it might be a bug since the wiki doesn't state anything about the bonus damage not being applied to offhand weaponry.

It is a bit finicky as it was originally intended to only apply to the main weapon. However, if you switch the weapons around, so the off hand weapon is in the main hand - it will apply. (and once applied it will stay there until you try to imbue it, temp essense it etc. but simply re-do the switcheroo).

You can examine the weapon - it will list a + to damage respective to your soft int-modifier capped at your swashbuckler level.

toftdal wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 12:26 pm It is a bit finicky as it was originally intended to only apply to the main weapon. However, if you switch the weapons around, so the off hand weapon is in the main hand - it will apply. (and once applied it will stay there until you try to imbue it, temp essense it etc. but simply re-do the switcheroo).

You can examine the weapon - it will list a + to damage respective to your soft int-modifier capped at your swashbuckler level.

Right now it's listing a "+4 bonus slashing damage" - I'll test it out and see if I land anything below 5.

Tested - Seems to be fixed? I just switched the weapons to and from offhand until both got the +4 bonus.