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<blockquote data-quote="Zhure" data-source="post: 1004052" data-attributes="member: 308">I concur that percentage increases is a bad way to look at Power Attack.&nbsp; I also feel the change to PA makes light weapons an even worse choice than they were before. In 3e, we saw a lot of 2-handers, some sword&amp;board, but the only people using light weapons were small characters and TWF'ers. One of the ways to make light weapons worthwhile was to power attack with them, converting a piddling 1d4+1 into a 1d4+4. Even so it was substandard compared to the 2d6+6 the great sword wielder was bashing about. Now in 3.5, I foresee the only ones using light weapons will be the TWF'ers, who still give up a feat and take a -2 to try to keep up with the great sword guy. It's a completely nonsensical rules change as far as I'm concerned. While on the surface it looks like the change was made to balance out the big weapons vs the small weapons, in truth all it did was make the small weapons worth even less than they were before and the big weapons worth even more than they were before. A percentage shift in damage means nothing in a system where hit points are linear. So what if you do 200% more with PA and a light weapon.I like a lot of the changes in 3.5, but this certainly isn't one of them. More and more I find myself seeing my games as 3.0 with a few 3.5 houserules rather than 3.5 games with a lot of 3.0 houserules.Greg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zhure, post: 1004052, member: 308"] I concur that percentage increases is a bad way to look at Power Attack. I also feel the change to PA makes light weapons an even worse choice than they were before. In 3e, we saw a lot of 2-handers, some sword&board, but the only people using light weapons were small characters and TWF'ers. One of the ways to make light weapons worthwhile was to power attack with them, converting a piddling 1d4+1 into a 1d4+4. Even so it was substandard compared to the 2d6+6 the great sword wielder was bashing about. Now in 3.5, I foresee the only ones using light weapons will be the TWF'ers, who still give up a feat and take a -2 to try to keep up with the great sword guy. It's a completely nonsensical rules change as far as I'm concerned. While on the surface it looks like the change was made to balance out the big weapons vs the small weapons, in truth all it did was make the small weapons worth even less than they were before and the big weapons worth even more than they were before. A percentage shift in damage means nothing in a system where hit points are linear. So what if you do 200% more with PA and a light weapon. I like a lot of the changes in 3.5, but this certainly isn't one of them. More and more I find myself seeing my games as 3.0 with a few 3.5 houserules rather than 3.5 games with a lot of 3.0 houserules. Greg [/QUOTE]

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