Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 911877" data-attributes="member: 11437">Unless he has the Flaw, "Full Power Only", the character can apply from 1 to 10 ranks' of damage bonus to the Energy Blast.  This is switchable at will.  The damage bonus is equivalent to ranks in the case of a ranged attack unless the character takes the "Mighty" Extra.I'm not sure where you picked up this information, and it's totally wrong.  Let's see if I can set it straight for you.For a melee weapon, add the character's Strength bonus to the base damage bonus to get the total Damage Bonus for the attack.  This differs slightly for a weapon for which the character has paid points versus an item he or she just picks up during an encounter.For example, a Longsword does +4L damage.  This means that a wielder with STR 15 (bonus of +2) gets a total Damage Bonus of +6 when wielding this weapon.  If the same character picks up a Dagger that does base +2L damage, they now have a total Damage Bonus of +4 with that weapon.  I hope this makes sense.If the character has not paid points for the weapon in question, he or she cannot apply more STR bonus to the damage than the base bonus of the weapon in question, and the weapon is likely to break if it hits someone who can fully resist the attack.  I'm not going to go into details about those rules, but suffice it to say that a character cannot more than double the base damage of an 'acquired' weapon.I hope this helps.  Post any more questions if you want.</blockquote>

Verification