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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 5883170" data-attributes="member: 16760">As far as I'm concerned, +X weapons can die in a fire.  They're completely unflavorful.  I could see a *particular* magic sword giving a +X to hit, based on its specific enchantments.  (Like the way the sword Caudimordax gave a huge bonus to hit dragons in 'Farmer Giles of Ham'.)  But this idea that it's normal for a sword to give a bonus to hit, and the exact same bonus to damage, has to go.I'd rather see fighters get a bonus to damage for level than multiple attacks, along with a class feature similar to Great Cleave so that he can buzzsaw his way through hordes of minions.  If it only worked on minions, it would kind of resemble the 1e "Kill X 1hd critters per round" rule, come to think.  You know, I like this quite a bit - a high level fighter is a force of nature against the goblin hordes, but when he gets to the warchief, suddenly it's a cut-scene and he has to fight him straight-up!Aside from these points, I think Stormonu speaks wisdom.</blockquote>