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<blockquote data-quote="grickherder" data-source="post: 4718673" data-attributes="member: 68043">I sort of agree.&nbsp; Though I must admit that even though I know the math, I may take a feat to go from a d10 damage to a d12 even though it nets me less than a +1 to hit.&nbsp; Rolling those twelvesiders is fun.Another good example is going from the maul to the modernkrad (which gives you brutal 1).&nbsp; Statistically it just gives you an average of +1 damage per [W] of the attack, arguably not as good as +1 to hit.&nbsp; But when you roll damage dice and it comes up 1,1 once every 36 strikes or so, it's going to feel so good to pick those up and roll them again.Is it the most mathematically optimized way to increase your average damage per round?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; Hitting more does that.&nbsp; But rerolling 1s is fun.&nbsp; And picking up those bigger dice for damage is fun too.&nbsp; Should players be able to choose that even if their average DPR doesn't go up as much as if they chose a lower damage die but +1 to hit?&nbsp; I think so.&nbsp; I suppose a perfectly designed game would give you the same average DPR regardless of your weapon and feat choices, but I'm not sure I'd want to trade away the relavency of my choices for the sake of balance, even if I'm making sub optimal choices in order to reroll those 1s.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="grickherder, post: 4718673, member: 68043"] I sort of agree. Though I must admit that even though I know the math, I may take a feat to go from a d10 damage to a d12 even though it nets me less than a +1 to hit. Rolling those twelvesiders is fun. Another good example is going from the maul to the modernkrad (which gives you brutal 1). Statistically it just gives you an average of +1 damage per [W] of the attack, arguably not as good as +1 to hit. But when you roll damage dice and it comes up 1,1 once every 36 strikes or so, it's going to [I]feel[/I] so good to pick those up and roll them again. Is it the most mathematically optimized way to increase your average damage per round? Nope. Hitting more does that. But rerolling 1s is fun. And picking up those bigger dice for damage is fun too. Should players be able to choose that even if their average DPR doesn't go up as much as if they chose a lower damage die but +1 to hit? I think so. I suppose a perfectly designed game would give you the same average DPR regardless of your weapon and feat choices, but I'm not sure I'd want to trade away the relavency of my choices for the sake of balance, even if I'm making sub optimal choices in order to reroll those 1s. [/QUOTE]

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