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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kbrakke" data-source="post: 7100479" data-attributes="member: 6781797">I personally am a huge fan of reducing variance, so if I had to pick I would always pick a +2 sword. I was ecstatic because the flametongue is cool as hell, I wanted to use my sword that burst in to flames all the time.I would always choose a +2/+2 over a +1/+1 that claimed it was on fire. I think a huge part pf the coolness comes from using the die to represent the fire damage. It could just be the prescient of the elemental spells and all the magic items, but if you tell me something has an elemental quality but I don't get to roll extra dice it doesn't feel right. Now if you made it between a +2 sword and a +1/+1d4 sword, that would be more interesting. When I think elemental I think extra damage dice, I think the 2d6 is fine, both because I don't care about the damage my players do and because fire is something commonly resisted or ignored. When you use a flametongue the power in the fiction matches the numbers you roll matches the feeling of rolling 3+ dice for each attack.</blockquote>