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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 6266519" data-attributes="member: 63508">Well you do need to understand why something exist in order to replace it.The part people are not getting it DOAM in the GWF style is not about the misses themselves. It is about frequency of misses.It is much the different between how spells are written to how many you get per day.DOAM is there because on D&D's low tolerance for mistakes. There was a very commonly heard complaint about D&D that its low level game is so lethal and intolerant that it fosters gameplay which isn't heroic or could be seen as cowardly or boring. And this translates into encouraging stereotypical PCs as other PCs greatly raise your chance of failure.This is we're GWF comes in. Without a fighting style or Reckless attack, using a great weapon is a bad idea until you get a second attack and some bonuses from class features. The benefits of damage do not outweigh the drawbacks of missing and being in melee range.So you either must:Increase the base damageReduce the frequency of missesReduce the penalty of missesOr reduce the penalty of going into melee, shieldless against a high HP enemy.Or no one with a brain would use a great weapon.</blockquote>