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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6754268" data-attributes="member: 1465">It certainly wouldn't break the game.One effect is that it increases the variance of your damage. For example if each attack has 50% hit probability, then with 2 separate attacks you normally have 25% probability of both hits + 50% probability of one hit & one miss + 25% probability of both misses; 'merge' these 2 into a single attack at x2 damage, and you have 50% probability of hit and 50% probability of miss. Your average damage is still the same, but with more rolls needed then you get a close-to-average damage more often (these are true whatever your hit probability).OTOH there is a net disadvantage: that you cannot split up your attacks to multiple targets anymore. Sometimes, the first attack kills the target, but now you have combined the first and second attack (into a single roll with double damage), so your second attack is wasted.Forget about realism... Anyway the game ends at 20th-level, so you'd have to compare the 20th-level Fighter with the world's best swordfighters, not the average 'good' swordfighter, and neither the typical swordfighting teacher or dojo sensei. Maybe some olympic champions, but even they are not fantasy 20th-level swordfighters!BTW, Action Surge is 2 times per day. You don't get to do 8 attacks per round, you get to do 8 attacks per round twice a day, and 4 attacks per round the rest of the day. It's not even that much high-fantasy.</blockquote>

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