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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 6995024" data-attributes="member: 20564">That would be a drop in expected damage per attack.  It overcompensates for the damage inflation though not by too much, but then it also turns a number of hits into misses and that's what would really bring it down.Just to give an example - let's take a d8 weapon (longsword, longbow, whatever) woth +4 Str, +3 proficiency, fairly average for a 5th thru 7th level character, vs. AC 14.  (A 65% to hit chance using PHB method.)  Actually, I'll ignore crits to make the math nicer but it's not a big change - that all hapen 5% of the time and add +4.5 damage.PHB method:  65% chance to hit, d8+4 (avg 8.5) = 5.525 expected damage per attack.No strength to damage, add to-hit extra to damage:  65% chance to hit.  Attack Roll of 8-20 adds +0 to +12 damage.  Average damage on hit is 10.5, expected damage per attack (10.5*.65) = 6.825.  (23% higher)Same as above, but increase AC by proficiency:  50% chance to hit, attack roll of 11-20 adds +0 to +9.  Average damage on hit is 9, expected damage per attack (9 * .5) = 4.5  (18% lower)As the base damage goes up (say, larger weapons, barbarian rage bonus, etc.) the difference becomes larger.For all that, it's definitely in the range of playable.</blockquote>