Salamandyr
Adventurer
What A'koss said...
I guess I would be okay with weapon choice being a somewhat greater component of a fighters damage. My original pushback was because the recommendations for making that happen made weapon choice all powerful...again.
For instance, I've seen a few suggestions to make the martial damage die weapon dependent, so that a dagger wielder could roll all d4's and a great axe wielder would wield all d12's. Can you see why I think that would be a terrible idea?
Others have suggested 3e style where a fighter specializes in a single weapon and is less efficient with everything else. I hate this idea too.
Right now, the big problem is you've got two different damage mechanisms, and it's not readily apparent that that's necessary. Remove one of them, give a higher level fighter 2 attacks, and having a higher damage weapon becomes a more significant factor, while still keeping the majority of a fighters damage inherent in the fighter, where it should be.
"The weapon is only as dangerous as the person carrying it"
I guess I would be okay with weapon choice being a somewhat greater component of a fighters damage. My original pushback was because the recommendations for making that happen made weapon choice all powerful...again.
For instance, I've seen a few suggestions to make the martial damage die weapon dependent, so that a dagger wielder could roll all d4's and a great axe wielder would wield all d12's. Can you see why I think that would be a terrible idea?
Others have suggested 3e style where a fighter specializes in a single weapon and is less efficient with everything else. I hate this idea too.
Right now, the big problem is you've got two different damage mechanisms, and it's not readily apparent that that's necessary. Remove one of them, give a higher level fighter 2 attacks, and having a higher damage weapon becomes a more significant factor, while still keeping the majority of a fighters damage inherent in the fighter, where it should be.
"The weapon is only as dangerous as the person carrying it"