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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rugger" data-source="post: 937114" data-attributes="member: 3092">This is really bugging me...Now, I'm no statistician or even a "math person"....but the justification that light weapons get a greater percentage increase in damage vs bigger weapons strikes me as poop. The game is based on abstract concepts (HP and Damage) and its the FINAL damage total that matters....not the fact that a +2 to damage is a 50% increase for a dagger and only a 25% increase for a longsword.If i'm bungling the mentality here, please let me know so I can remove my foot from my mouth... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />And, in my experiences, if someone thinks the feat is not worthwhile, they are mistaken. In nearly every game I've played in, PA became essentially a damage-buff conversion. For example, any buff the fighter gets that adds to his "To-Hit", is instantly swapped into damage using power attack. Obviously, this won't apply to enemies that are hard to hit in the first place. A specific example would be the 16th level tank in my home game: if someone casts a bless on him, he instantly converts it to damage with PA...same with spells like prayer. At that level, he doesn't sit and figure out how it affects his "average damage per round calculations", he just knows that a +1 to hit is not of much use to him...but every little + to damage is more appealing...I'm just starting to think that all the logical calculations folks can make, though mathmatically correct, don't apply to most players...they just play the game. And in their mindset, PA just got changed from a great feat to a gotta-have feat.-Rugger"I Blather!"</blockquote>

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