Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Well, I don’t know about an algorithm, I’m just saying the Martial Advantage trait was a line break and three lines of text just to tell you what amounts to “no, the longsword doing 2d10 is not a typo,” and given all the other instances of page space saving methods we’ve been seeing in the 2024 books, I’m not surprised they seem to have opted to omit that “unnecessary” text.At the end of the day, you either trust them to put in whatever numbers they think work, OR you want to see an algorithm from which those numbers are derived.
And without seeing a stated algorithm (like the monster design of 3e), people who want the assurances of a formula try to derive an algorithm from a data set (the MM) that may not even use an algorithm at all!