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Exactly, who the hell wants the +2 Frost Axe if it's PINK?

Damge roll: Roll the damage indicated in the power description. If you’re using a weapon for the attack, the damage is some multiple of your weapon damage dice. The vorpal bonus is not strictly speaking, part of the damage roll that is counted when a critical hit triggers. So when you maximize...

Vorpal is the reason there are no rules for resizing weapons. Resizing a vorpal damage until it's so small that it's d2 means infinite damage on every hit. No go, dangerous territory, etc for the corebook. Houserules wise, just remember to keep a usuability limit for sanity.

Actually, two weapon fighting is plenty viable for a fighter, especially if he goes with throwing weapons on the offhand. They're as good as a light shield on defense and you get +1 damage and you can chuck them around while keeping a bigger damage die on your melee attacks.

Vorpal does not link to the back. It also states "Whenever you roll the maximum result on any damage die for this weapon" - which implies that some weapons have multiple die. Since weapons only have one damage die, the vorpal damage die is not necessarily the more common weapon damage die...

If you're willing to get lax with the rules to accept the crits count as rolling max damage, which I still disagree with btw, then you can also rule that the extra die from vorpal are granted by the critical, and by the extra damage rule, does not get auto maxed. "Extra Damage: Magic weapons...

You are making the assumption that damage die as referenced by vorpal means weapon damage die through the glossary. While reasonable, it not necessarily the case since vorpal doesn't imply weapon damage die, only damage die. You could interpret damage die as any die the vorpal weapon provides...

The confusion stems that damage die leads to weapon damage die on the back of the PHB. IE [2d4] as a whole. You can interpret damage die as any die that the vorpal weapon gives you, including the d12s, or weapon damage die only. The rules are iffy on that.

Well, according to my link, any 4 would on a 1d4 would mean a reroll, no matter if you're rolling 2d4 or 14d4. And a 8 would mean a 8+2d4, and a 7 from a 3,4 on 2d4 would mean 7+1d4. You are free to disbelieve however.

Well, I agree that you are right to say that the RAI could be something else, the fact that no RAW arguments have toppled my interpretation does imply that as written, mine is the correct one until errata appears. But I'll leave it at that since it's now more about personal conviction than...

http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1044906 According to the last post on this thread, custserv says yes. I know it's not the actual quoted response, but I don't see a reason for the poster to lie.

For me, it depends on alot on the personality of the monster. I think your general rule about intelligence is pretty good though.

Pinbot, and other users, please read the thread before posting so that you don't reiterate old arguments. I would like to think the 10+ pages in this thread are more informative than that considering how many posts I have in there. :) @ Zurai Even so, while easily confused, I think the...

It's not a roll in the sense that you roll die. It must be a roll because it's implied that you have to make a damage roll to add modifiers. If you ignore the fact that you HAVE to make a damage roll to add mods, your interpretation is the most logical conclusion. I put the blame entirely on...

I didn't say to ignore dice, just that you still never rolled any. As before, even knowing the type of die you are rolling is enough to determine max damage.

Karin, using monster statistics to justify your explanations is inherently flawed since encounter and party dynamic depends on a lot more.

It says Rather than roll damage, determine the maximum damage your attack can do. The damage your attack can do is keyed off your damage roll, so it's still logically sound to take your damage roll and remove randomness. It still opposes the any die results being made to trigger vorpal.

Kobolds have a nifty victory chart, so I think it's nice if they flee, hide in place (ostrich method), but I think they are too cowardly to stand there and take punishment with their leader. Goblins may do the above, though an aspiring commander might want to take Irontooth's place and rally...

I think that's the exact wrong assumption since critical hits specifically states not to roll die while vorpal triggers off die being rolled. If it says specifically not that there is no dice roll and only a number (Maximum damage you could have done), I think it's unreasonable to assume that a...

No, the question is actually when a you get a crit, do you automatically get another x[W] roll for damage. IE: Do crits count as you having rolled max die or just a count of the damage. I believe custserv has already answered that on a 2d4, any result of a 4 gets rerolled, but being custserv...