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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhatGravitas" data-source="post: 6050905" data-attributes="member: 33132">Hmm... while I find it sad that the fighter now longer has a good unique ability as it is, I think expertise dice *are* a good way to replace the traditional attack bonuses. Due to the way they scale (in number as in size), they naturally provide a way to scale maneuvers in breadth as in magnitude.Furthermore, I think having dice instead of a flat bonus is a lot more exciting and fun - not to mention more physical. You have your expertise dice sitting right there on the table instead of having a +X somewhere on your sheet. As mentioned by the article, it also works well with the bounded accuracy... not to mention that it finally acknowledges that spell damage inflates very quickly and that weapon damage needs to keep up (and having flexible bonus dice seem to be a better and cleaner way than pre-packed 2[W], 5[W] damage etc. maneuvers as in 4E and definitely faster and less whiffy than the multiple attacks in 3E).I hope that now they fully embrace the expertise dice as what they are to the current classes already - a part of the base progression of weapon users. Why? Because either they go back to making them fighter exclusive (that seems to be unlikely) or they acknowledge the place in the system and proceed to give every class an unique thing apart from the expertise dice and class-specific maneuvers.</blockquote>