Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xeviat" data-source="post: 6754979" data-attributes="member: 57494">I very much supported scaling damage back in the day over scaling attacks. Firstly, scaling damage allows opportunity attacks to remain as threatening in the end game as they are in the beginning of the game. As it stands now, a fighter's opportunity attack (barring sentinel or other effects) hardly matters. Second, there's still ways to make scaling damage work for all the things people have been mentioning here.Lets say instead of getting extra attacks, martial characters just got extra damage dice. Their damage would be reduced, because of not getting the multipliers again. Also, multi attacks flatten out damage expectations, because there's a lower chance of hitting 0 times and doing no damage. That's worth something.The second can be addressed by adding in "on miss" effects, or possibly rerolls. The evoker gets damage on a successful save on their cantrips after all. That would functionally bring up average damage so the lost damage from issue one wouldn't be there, in the averages (the ceiling is still reduced, but the floor is raised).Having scaling damage also leaves room for cool, universal mechanics. Lets say at level 5, fighter attacks go from [W]+Str/Dex to 2[W]+Str/Dex. Lets also say that combat maneuvers are changed so that you can give up 1[W] to add certain effects, like give up 1[W] for adding trip, disarm, or push. What if you could give up 1[W] to attack 2 targets, still allowing for AOE style multiattacks but spreading the damage around (you'll also deal more damage over all to two targets then you would to one target, just like the standard AoE paradigm).And, you get  a nice beefy opportunity attack.Doing such modifications would take a lot of work in the system. I'm sad that they didn't go in this direction, as they were flirting with it in the playtest.</blockquote>

Verification