In either case, things like accurate, that give you boost dice, are only used if it is on the primary weapon. If your secondary weapon is accurate, you will not get any boost dice when you roll.

When you make the initial roll, that is true. But if you do generate enough Advantage to activate the second weapon, then any inherent capabilities it brings to the table would then be available, whether that’s a boost die or an automatic additional Advantage, or whatever.

I believe that Sam made that pretty clear.

In either case, things like accurate, that give you boost dice, are only used if it is on the primary weapon. If your secondary weapon is accurate, you will not get any boost dice when you roll.

When you make the initial roll, that is true. But if you do generate enough Advantage to activate the second weapon, then any inherent capabilities it brings to the table would then be available, whether that’s a boost die or an automatic additional Advantage, or whatever.I believe that Sam made that pretty clear.

In fact I just reread his response in the questions thread. He specifically says anything on the second weapon that effects the dice pool doesn't kick in. It can effect the results.

In either case, things like accurate, that give you boost dice, are only used if it is on the primary weapon. If your secondary weapon is accurate, you will not get any boost dice when you roll.

When you make the initial roll, that is true. But if you do generate enough Advantage to activate the second weapon, then any inherent capabilities it brings to the table would then be available, whether that’s a boost die or an automatic additional Advantage, or whatever.I believe that Sam made that pretty clear.

You would not get to roll extra dice when the second weapon comes into play. Pretty sure he made that clear.

In fact I just reread his response in the questions thread. He specifically says anything on the second weapon that effects the dice pool doesn't kick in. It can effect the results.

Indeed.

Rolling the dice is step by step, and resolving the symbols is after all the dice have been rolled. By the time you spend the advantage to activate the second weapon, the dice ship has sailed.

Otherwise, you can end up with odd situations like using an Inaccurate off-hand weapon, and rolling a failure that makes the whole attack miss or (even better) a threat that cancels the advantage that allowed the off-hand weapon to be used in the first place – which begs the question of whether THAT result occurs if it cancels out it's own existence.

As a side note, I know it isn't RAW, but I would say that you would use add Accurate only if both weapons have the quality, and likewise would add Inaccurate if either one did. The overall intent of dual weapon use is to use the worst-case die-pool. You already do it with Ability and Skill, so doing so with weapon quality fits as well.

Alot of good points on my question, So far she has been holding both but focusing on only using one in any given round. I do some fencing in the SCA and have a flintlock pistol ( essentially a rubberband gun) that i use at some events so adding a penalty to her ranged attacks never occurred to me. I am however upgrading a die of all melee attacks against her, because if the blade is coming at you you will instinctively block, and if the gun or blaster is in a better position to block you use that, (i've had to repair the rubber band gun a few times even thought the F&$#er is made of oak) with a blaster getting struck by a vibrosword or axe might stop the attack, OR it might break the blaster or even worse, with an enemy triumph or so, might cause the blaster to overload

I also decided that if she were using a knife instead of a full size sword, instead of adding a full difficulty die that i would only add a setback die, mostly because, now don't laugh, because of Supernatural. you always see the boys taking a good firing stance while holding a flashlight, holding a knife in a similar position would still allow a fairly stable firing position in most circumstances. However you couldn't do that with a sword because that would get heavy quick.