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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 3905242" data-attributes="member: 957">You know, I thought some more about the prior comment that my group doesn't increase their damage and I concluded that I 100% disagree with this claim.  You can come far short of optimizing PA and still gain a solid advantage from it.It is really easy to gauge what you need to roll to hit a particular target and adjust over the course of a few rounds.  I am certain that they dish out substantially more damage than they would if they never used PA at all.  And they don't spend any significant time dwelling on it.  For example, my wife tends to almost always start at 0 PA.  If she hits with a 4 or something (or observes that other players are), she will start rolling in some PA.   On really obvious easy hits she will do the opposite and start with a lot of PA and work back as needed.  Either way the total damage output goes up and she ends up close to optimal just be natural tendency without the slightest need for dwelling on the math.  And really, if a player is going to get themselves worked up over perfectly maximizing their damage output over being into the roll of a powerful warrior smashing his foes, then getting rid of the math isn't going to treat the core problem.Because I will repeat that regardless of how much damage they do, the total amount of fun added by PA is very high in my group.Be cool without any bogging at all is an awesome addition to the game.</blockquote>

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