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Do DM's feel that Sharpshooter & Great Weapon Master overpowered?
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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6916033" data-attributes="member: 6787650"><p>That's a matter of taste. In actual play, people who are good at math are as likely to focus on probability distributions as on samples from the distribution. Such people (like myself) don't find crits exciting nor low damage rolls distressing. What they see if whether or not you've forced an enemy into a disadvantageous position.</p><p></p><p>If I can arrange the flow of combat so that I get three attacks against you at advantage for every attack you get against me at disadvantage, I frankly don't care what I roll. Even if I roll all 1s and you roll all 20s, I'm still going to feel good about myself. (I may tell the story someday about how your unbelievably lucky rolling saved your skin, but the story will be told with humorous disbelief and not with chagrin on my part.)</p><p></p><p>Conversely, if I get ambushed when away from my weapons, and I run in the wrong direction to retrieve them and rejoin the party, and yet amazingly everything in the ambush is ineffectual against me due to poor die-rolling, I'm still going to feel like an idiot saved by pure luck. I won't be retelling <em>that</em> story.</p><p></p><p>So no, in actual play, probability distributions don't cease to matter in the general case. Maybe they do for you, but you're not everyone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6916033, member: 6787650"] That's a matter of taste. In actual play, people who are good at math are as likely to focus on probability distributions as on samples from the distribution. Such people (like myself) don't find crits exciting nor low damage rolls distressing. What they see if whether or not you've forced an enemy into a disadvantageous position. If I can arrange the flow of combat so that I get three attacks against you at advantage for every attack you get against me at disadvantage, I frankly don't care what I roll. Even if I roll all 1s and you roll all 20s, I'm still going to feel good about myself. (I may tell the story someday about how your unbelievably lucky rolling saved your skin, but the story will be told with humorous disbelief and not with chagrin on my part.) Conversely, if I get ambushed when away from my weapons, and I run in the wrong direction to retrieve them and rejoin the party, and yet amazingly everything in the ambush is ineffectual against me due to poor die-rolling, I'm still going to feel like an idiot saved by pure luck. I won't be retelling [I]that[/I] story. So no, in actual play, probability distributions don't cease to matter in the general case. Maybe they do for you, but you're not everyone. [/QUOTE]
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