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<blockquote data-quote="Flynn" data-source="post: 3652598" data-attributes="member: 1836">In the end, if the weapons aren't streamlined, I will certainly be opposed to adding more dice to the mix and modifying the existing weapons to make them more damaging. The Saga weapons are easy: one die for normal weapons, two dices for vibration-based weapons, three dice for energy -based weapons. So adding dice to weapons goes against our base model.In addition, it would require recalculating the damage bonuses to compensate for the loss of iterative attacks.The heightened damage will eat through hitpoints that much more quickly, reducing the effective challenge of the monsters that the characters will face. (The monsters die quicker, so they don't give as much challenge.) This might require CR adjustments for monsters.One of our goals is to limit the amount of adjustments that need to be made to monsters as much as possible, so that you can still use your existing monster manuals and the like. Heightening base weapon damage is an unnecessary step that increases the amount of adjustments that must be done.For these reasons, I would prefer we did not adjust weapon damage.With Regards,Flynn</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flynn, post: 3652598, member: 1836"] In the end, if the weapons aren't streamlined, I will certainly be opposed to adding more dice to the mix and modifying the existing weapons to make them more damaging. The Saga weapons are easy: one die for normal weapons, two dices for vibration-based weapons, three dice for energy -based weapons. So adding dice to weapons goes against our base model. In addition, it would require recalculating the damage bonuses to compensate for the loss of iterative attacks. The heightened damage will eat through hitpoints that much more quickly, reducing the effective challenge of the monsters that the characters will face. (The monsters die quicker, so they don't give as much challenge.) This might require CR adjustments for monsters. One of our goals is to limit the amount of adjustments that need to be made to monsters as much as possible, so that you can still use your existing monster manuals and the like. Heightening base weapon damage is an unnecessary step that increases the amount of adjustments that must be done. For these reasons, I would prefer we did not adjust weapon damage. With Regards, Flynn [/QUOTE]

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