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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dozen" data-source="post: 6066670" data-attributes="member: 6698275">The amount of damage that can be dealt, however, is another story, which is what weapon dice represent. With a larger weapon, the hit covers a bigger area, thus not focusing the damage into one small point, and the more the weapon  weighs, the more leverage you have  to put into the blow to attack effectively. If it worked the way you imagine, heavy weapons would lose their only advantage, rendering them useless, and everybody in history would have used the fastest, tiniest skunkstabber they could find to fight each other. You can rip through me from chest  to guts with a dagger all you want, I'm not going to die instantly unless you hit something important, if I suspect right and I'm lucky enough to have 4+ hit points. I'm still going to bleed out painfully without medical attention, but that's another story. There's a woman whose neck was held together by less tissue than Nick's in Harry Potter, but still survived because her spine was intact. Don't mistake critical hits and sneak attacks for the average.</blockquote>