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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6063871" data-attributes="member: 22424">WotC would be well advised to remember the New Coke &quot;sip test&quot;. Basically, taken in small quantities, the increased sweetness of New Coke wiped the floor with both old Coke and Pepsi. But taken in larger quantities (that is, in real life use), it quickly became sickly.Yes, people do indeed enjoy rolling &quot;big handfuls of dice&quot;... occasionally. When the Wizard ends the encounter with a fireball, and grabs 10d6 to do so, that's cool. (And, indeed, it would be just as cool for the Fighter to use a similar 10-dice pool for his big end-of-encounter power.)However, when the party Rogue is rolling 1d4+5d6+2 damage for each of 4 sneak attacks in the round, and the same last round and the same next round... it really starts to get a bit much.Do it once, and it's awesome. Do it every single time, and it quickly becomes routine at best.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6063871, member: 22424"] WotC would be well advised to remember the New Coke "sip test". Basically, taken in small quantities, the increased sweetness of New Coke wiped the floor with both old Coke and Pepsi. But taken in larger quantities (that is, in real life use), it quickly became sickly. Yes, people do indeed enjoy rolling "big handfuls of dice"... [b]occasionally[/b]. When the Wizard ends the encounter with a [i]fireball[/i], and grabs 10d6 to do so, that's cool. (And, indeed, it would be just as cool for the Fighter to use a similar 10-dice pool for his big end-of-encounter power.) However, when the party Rogue is rolling 1d4+5d6+2 damage for each of 4 sneak attacks in the round, and the same last round and the same next round... it really starts to get a bit much. Do it once, and it's awesome. Do it every single time, and it quickly becomes routine at best. [/QUOTE]

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