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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6339726" data-attributes="member: 2011">Assume 3 for Str damage:7.5 damage, +3 AC: Defense and One Handed Weapon9.5 damage, +2 AC: Dueling10 damage, +1 AC: Defense and Two Handed Weapon (one of the fighters in the starter set)~11 damage, +0 AC: Great Weapon Fighting Two Handed Weapon13 damage, +0 AC: Two-Weapon FightingThe difference between Dueling and Defense with 2 Handed is small. However, Great Weapons nova more. 25% of rolling a 7 or higher on a 1 handed weapon, 50% with a Greataxe, and 58.3% with a Greatsword. Sure, the two handed weapon will average just a bit more damage than Dueling, but it will also drop a foe more often. Plus, the +1 AC for Dueling will only help one encounter in 3 to 5. I suspect that the WotC guys know more about math than they did in 4E. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />And while it is true that the Two-Weapon Fighting guy wins out at level one, at level five it's a different story (not taking into account magical weapons, criticals, etc.).15 damage, +3 AC: Defense and One Handed Weapon19 damage, +2 AC: Dueling20 damage, +1 AC: Defense and Two Handed Weapon~22 damage, +0 AC: Great Weapon Fighting Two Handed Weapon19.5 damage, +0 AC: Two-Weapon FightingAt higher levels like 11, the two-weapon fighting guy starts falling further behind. But, the Fighter learns new styles by then (level 10).But sword and board is perfectly reasonable. 5E is deadly. Keeping the Fighter up so that the rest of the team wipes out the opposition (like the Rogue shooting a bow and getting sneak attack damage against the Fighter's foe) is perfectly reasonable.The Fighter does not have to be the striker. He could be the tank.</blockquote>

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