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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 1230816" data-attributes="member: 3854">Something that has kind of bugged at me for a while now, is why does "dice progression" for things like damage by size not follow the dice we have access to?By the books:Increasing damage = 1d2 becomes 1d31d3 becomes 1d41d4 becomes 1d61d6 becomes 1d81d8 becomes 2d62d6 becomes 3d63d6 becomes 4d6etc.Why the apparent break down at 1d8? Why doesn't it continue. . .1d8 becomes 1d101d10 becomes 1d12then, since the next die jumps all the way up to d20, it could increase in the number of dice. . .1d12 becomes 2d82d8 becomes 2d102d10 becomes 2d122d12 becomes 3d8etc.Why does a greataxe use d12 instead of 2d6 like the greatsword? The greataxe seems to be the only purpose of the d12 in D&D now. And the only time the d10 gets used for other than percentile rolls is for the waraxe and bastard sword.I figure there's got to be a well thought-out reason for this, but I can't see it myself. I mean, everyone who has D&D dice has a d12 (and a d10), so why not add them to the standard progression of rolling?Quasqueton</blockquote>