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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 6004382" data-attributes="member: 16760">I think +X weapons should die in a fire.There, I said it.There's nothing wrong with an 'accuracy' enchantment, that makes a weapon more likely to hit.  And there's nothing wrong with a 'sharp' enchantment that makes a weapon do more damage.  And there's certainly nothing wrong with expressing that extra accuracy and/or damage with a bonus number.It's three assumptions about these enchantments that wreak much harm in D&D Land:1)  The accuracy bonus is always the same as the damage bonus, and:2)  These "+X" enchantments are the vanilla in the magic item flavor world, and (related):3)  Every magic weapon - no matter what it does - is expected to have an underlying "+X" on it.Why on earth can't you have a sword that gives +3 accuracy, but only +1 extra damage, or none at all?  Why can't you have a sword that bursts into flame, but doesn't make it any easier to hit anything?"+X" weapons do a lot all by their lonesome to suck the mystery out of magic weapons.  Once you know a weapon's "plus" value, the rest is just finding out "what else it does".Heck, 5e's (dis)advantage system opens doors to entirely new weapons...  How about a weapon that grants advantage on attacks?  (Highly prized by rogues!)  How about armor that gives you resistance to fire?  And so on?EDIT:  Or (just thought of this), how about weapons that affect Combat Superiority dice in some way?  Weapons that might give some small bonus to non-fighters, but really come alive in a fighter's hands?</blockquote>

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