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<blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6393649" data-attributes="member: 13009"><p>Lets take a look at a feat from 5e that I have seen some different interpretations of.</p><p><em></em></p><p><em><strong>Polearm Master</strong></em></p><p><em>You can keep your enemies at bay with reach weapons. You gain the following benefits:</em></p><p><em>• When you take the Attack action and attack with only a glaive, halberd, or quarterstaff, you can use a bonus action to make a melee attack with the opposite end of the weapon. The weapon’s damage die for this attack is a d4, and the attack deals bludgeoning damage.</em></p><p><em>• While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p></p><p>So I see the RAW of this feat as your bonus action attack with the polearm as the following.</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bonus action attack does d4+str mod damage.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bonus action attack has reach</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bonus action attack is with a two handed weapon so things like great weapon fighting style apply to it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All magic modifiers on the polearm apply to the bonus action attack.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"></li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p>Now some of the various interpretations I have seen of this feat include some or all of the following.</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The bonas action attack doesn't add ability score modifier damage.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The bonus action doesn't add magic weapon bonus to hit/damage, or extra damage like flaming.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The bonus action attack doesn't have reach.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The bonus action doesn't count as a two handed weapon attack.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"></li> </ul><p></p><p>So if you are a player say in the organized play program and you built a character around this feat, like a tempest cleric that can add thunder damage to every attack with a weapon, but by the virtue of organized play every month it is under a new DM, your power level with something as simple as your standard attack action changes so drastically it is mind boggling.</p><p></p><p>Clear RAW is very important to some people, and doesn't matter much at all to others. But the thing is to those who it does matter the game needs to be clear and consistent in it's design and wording, to the others it doesn't matter they will just play it the way the want with inconsistent writing or not. So make the game clear and consistent with a goal of rules first design it makes everyone happy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paraxis, post: 6393649, member: 13009"] Lets take a look at a feat from 5e that I have seen some different interpretations of. [I] [B]Polearm Master[/B] You can keep your enemies at bay with reach weapons. You gain the following benefits: • When you take the Attack action and attack with only a glaive, halberd, or quarterstaff, you can use a bonus action to make a melee attack with the opposite end of the weapon. The weapon’s damage die for this attack is a d4, and the attack deals bludgeoning damage. • While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach. [/I] So I see the RAW of this feat as your bonus action attack with the polearm as the following. [LIST] [*]Bonus action attack does d4+str mod damage. [*]Bonus action attack has reach [*]Bonus action attack is with a two handed weapon so things like great weapon fighting style apply to it. [*]All magic modifiers on the polearm apply to the bonus action attack. [*] [/LIST] Now some of the various interpretations I have seen of this feat include some or all of the following. [LIST] [*]The bonas action attack doesn't add ability score modifier damage. [*]The bonus action doesn't add magic weapon bonus to hit/damage, or extra damage like flaming. [*]The bonus action attack doesn't have reach. [*]The bonus action doesn't count as a two handed weapon attack. [*] [/LIST] So if you are a player say in the organized play program and you built a character around this feat, like a tempest cleric that can add thunder damage to every attack with a weapon, but by the virtue of organized play every month it is under a new DM, your power level with something as simple as your standard attack action changes so drastically it is mind boggling. Clear RAW is very important to some people, and doesn't matter much at all to others. But the thing is to those who it does matter the game needs to be clear and consistent in it's design and wording, to the others it doesn't matter they will just play it the way the want with inconsistent writing or not. So make the game clear and consistent with a goal of rules first design it makes everyone happy. [/QUOTE]
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