D&D 5E Great Weapon Fighting and damage dice from other sources

[TheLoneRanger1979]

So, the title is pretty much self explanatory.
Does the GWF give extra roll on 1 or 2 (as long as you use a weapon with two hands) even for damage rolls that do not involve that weapon directly? Like i.e. the superiority die or the hunter's mark, or something similar?

 

[mellored]

No. Just the weapon dice.

That said, i don't see any major issue allowing it.

 

[TheLoneRanger1979]

No. Just the weapon dice.

That said, i don't see any major issue allowing it.

I'm ok either way. So far i rolled with just the weapon dice as well, i was just afraid i might be doing to wrong. I just wanted to know what you people here make of it by RAW.

 

[mellored]

I'm ok either way. So far i rolled with just the weapon dice as well, i was just afraid i might be doing to wrong. I just wanted to know what you people here make of it by RAW.

Jemery clarified it here...

http://www.sageadvice.eu/2015/12/22...et-you-reroll-all-of-the-attacks-damage-dice/

 

[Warmaster Horus]

No. Just the weapon dice.

That said, i don't see any major issue allowing it.

The text of GWF does not support that it only allows rerolls from the weapon damage. It states an 'attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands'. If you use Hunter's Mark or any other enhancing damage dice in your attack, that would count for the purposes of GWF. There is no clarification of this in the PHB errata to say that it only applies to weapon damage and not other damage that is part of the attack.

 

[TheLoneRanger1979]

In that case there is a clear difference between the intent and the wording as is in the PHB. I wonder if this makes the issue largely academic and mostly a thing of DM concession....

 

[Warmaster Horus]

In that case there is a clear difference between the intent and the wording as is in the PHB. I wonder if this makes the issue largely academic and mostly a thing of DM concession....

I tend to agree. As a DM I like to go with the PHB and official erratta, however, for clarity's sake.

 

[Rhogar_Rarr]

My DM lets anyone with Great Weapon Fighting reroll all damage dice as per the PHB. This ranges from hunter mark/hex, to cantrips like Booming Blade or Greenflame Blade, or a paladin's smites. All of them are damage dice from an attack with a melee weapon after all. And even if it is against the intent of the rule, it doesn't seem to break the game. It does seem to make the players happier though. No one likes rolling low damage, especially when you expend a tightly limited resource like a smite. It just feels better to roll again. I'd certainly allow players in my game to reroll all damage dice just for the fun factor.

 

[zaratan]

RAW, yes, it say damage dice for the attack, not weapon dice.

RAI, no, as Jeremy Crawford said.

 

[feartheminotaur]

The RAW/RAI disparity caused a little tiff in our group, so the DM amended it to give eligible weapons the Brutal 2 property (re-roll all weapon dice that are 1 or 2). Hasn't been an issue. But in general, I haven't found smaller damage increases to affect the game at all. Attack increases? Well...that's another story for another thread.