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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 6640920" data-attributes="member: 12377">Well it hasn't been addressed in Sage Advice yet, so the most authoritative statement we have is from the esteemed Rodney Thompson:<a href="https://twitter.com/AntarianRanger/status/487006879160102913" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/AntarianRanger/status/487006879160102913</a>Other analysis:<a href="http://community.wizards.com/forum/rules-questions/threads/4145026" target="_blank">http://community.wizards.com/forum/rules-questions/threads/4145026</a><a href="http://community.wizards.com/forum/rules-questions/threads/4116466" target="_blank">http://community.wizards.com/forum/rules-questions/threads/4116466</a>Carefully re-reading the bit on Damage Rolls (PHB p.196) and Weapons (PHB p.146) I can't find anything to suggest that 2d6 could be considered a single damage &quot;die.&quot; In previous editions it was definitely treated this way (in 4E, 1[W] could refer to multiple dice in some cases, and in 3E, 2d6 was part of a weapon damage progression when increasing weapon sizes), but the most straightforward and literal interpretation in 5E, is that a die is a die is a die, and 2d6 is two dice.Plus, ask your fighter friend with Great Weapon Fighting fighting style and a greatsword, whether he wants to reroll 1s and 2s on both damage dice, or on a single 2d6 damage &quot;die.&quot; Everybody I've seen does the former, which is a tremendous benefit to greatswords, so it's only fair to be consistent when applying rules that grant &quot;one additional damage die,&quot; even if that works against greatswords.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="77IM, post: 6640920, member: 12377"] Well it hasn't been addressed in Sage Advice yet, so the most authoritative statement we have is from the esteemed Rodney Thompson: [url]https://twitter.com/AntarianRanger/status/487006879160102913[/url] Other analysis: [url]http://community.wizards.com/forum/rules-questions/threads/4145026[/url] [url]http://community.wizards.com/forum/rules-questions/threads/4116466[/url] Carefully re-reading the bit on Damage Rolls (PHB p.196) and Weapons (PHB p.146) I can't find anything to suggest that 2d6 could be considered a single damage "die." In previous editions it was definitely treated this way (in 4E, 1[W] could refer to multiple dice in some cases, and in 3E, 2d6 was part of a weapon damage progression when increasing weapon sizes), but the most straightforward and literal interpretation in 5E, is that a die is a die is a die, and 2d6 is two dice. Plus, ask your fighter friend with Great Weapon Fighting fighting style and a greatsword, whether he wants to reroll 1s and 2s on both damage dice, or on a single 2d6 damage "die." Everybody I've seen does the former, which is a tremendous benefit to greatswords, so it's only fair to be consistent when applying rules that grant "one additional damage die," even if that works against greatswords. [/QUOTE]

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