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<blockquote data-quote="Baron Opal" data-source="post: 3683434" data-attributes="member: 10433">I can appreciate that. Iterative attacks are only useful against mooks, in my experience, so giving a major bonus to damage to compensate for their loss seems to be trading apples for oranges, so to speak. You might hit a comparable threat with your -5 attack but not with your -10 attack. That's a reason why I really like feats like Rapid Strike which trades attack bonus for dice of damage.When I was thinking about the SWSE rules and I saw the level based bonus damage that tracked well in my mind to the bonus gained for attribute bonuses and magic weapon bonuses. I can see that over the career of the adventurer the +1 to +10 bonus to damage tracked to the bonus from strength from girdles and gauntlets and from the +1 to +5 from weapons. I figured that the optional nature of iterative attacks was mitigated by the double to triple base damage from the weapons.I would really rather not spend an action point for the iterative attacks. Especially since that in SWSE there really aren't iterative attacks, you gain bonus attacks for a flat penalty to all of them. I like the concept of being able to &quot;spend&quot; BAB to do cool things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Baron Opal, post: 3683434, member: 10433"] I can appreciate that. Iterative attacks are only useful against mooks, in my experience, so giving a major bonus to damage to compensate for their loss seems to be trading apples for oranges, so to speak. You might hit a comparable threat with your -5 attack but not with your -10 attack. That's a reason why I really like feats like Rapid Strike which trades attack bonus for dice of damage. When I was thinking about the SWSE rules and I saw the level based bonus damage that tracked well in my mind to the bonus gained for attribute bonuses and magic weapon bonuses. I can see that over the career of the adventurer the +1 to +10 bonus to damage tracked to the bonus from strength from girdles and gauntlets and from the +1 to +5 from weapons. I figured that the optional nature of iterative attacks was mitigated by the double to triple base damage from the weapons. I would really rather not spend an action point for the iterative attacks. Especially since that in SWSE there really aren't iterative attacks, you gain bonus attacks for a flat penalty to all of them. I like the concept of being able to "spend" BAB to do cool things. [/QUOTE]

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