Then again, lets do it the old-fashioned way: tune offhand penalty so it
actually means something! Remember, cyclops should be only truly ambidextrous
race. So there, make lefty suck for others.

++TonTo is full of ideas, about to burst

Excellent idea. Negate Offhand Penalty should be linear to how well you hit
with your left hand. So, 100% would be equal to your right hand, 50% half as
slow and half the damage. Cyclops would get this skill to 100% from race
shrine?

Definitely a coding job for Sai Clops... har har har.

Yah yah, 0% skill no hits no damage. So make it 0% skill = 50/50
speed/damage or something and linearly from there.

They BORN with one eye but they they have to TRAIN to be able to use both hands
equaly well?
How does this different from races that has two eyes?

No training. Inhert ability.

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Why on earth should the amount of eyes affect one being ambidexterous or not
anyway? Anyone with only one eye should be horrible in combat, having no
stereo sight and all. (Not that I like comparing RL and batmud, it always
leads to ridiculous debates. But seems like everyone is doing it, in bad and
good.)

:shurgg: Beats me. Giants are not and cyclopes different from them by having
one eye. What else it could be? The ability you can eat sheeps gives the
ability to use both hands in combat? There is no training involved in this
sheap eating thus, you either can or dont. Same fact should then reflect to
the offhand ability.
Their mental path ways and reflexes are more straight (more vurnable to psi)?
Again they are born with that thus again they should not be requred to train
it.
Not in close combat (i can tell you) but throwing/shooting with projectiles is
pain in the ass.
But i can imagine how horrible it could be to have only one eye and get dirt in
to it. No switching to secondary while diging the dirt out.
Well, as long no real magic is found, you just have to base the debate on the
facts that the games fluff gives and on RL if no fluff is given in that area.

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