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<blockquote data-quote="Karui_Kage" data-source="post: 4330588" data-attributes="member: 53610"><p>Looking further into it, I'm not sure why the definition 'damage roll' was brought into this, other then to confuse the issue. The definition of the Vorpal weapon seems clear.</p><p></p><p>"Whenever you roll the maximum result on any damage die for this weapon, roll that die again..."</p><p></p><p>If they meant for you to reroll the weapon dice on crits, why not say</p><p>"Whenever you receive the maximum result on any damage roll for this weapon, roll the weapon damage die again..."?</p><p></p><p>Despite what some people think about how rules definitions and lawyering is the purview of 3.5, 4.0 seems to have quite the share. That this weapon clearly spells out the action of rolling seems to mean it intended the effect not to have you re-roll crit dice.</p><p></p><p>Then again, maybe it does. The beauty of this is, I or the posters of this thread may never know. It's wizards. One CS representative may say one thing, another may say the opposite. Are there really that may level 30 games being run right now that it's that large of a problem?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Karui_Kage, post: 4330588, member: 53610"] Looking further into it, I'm not sure why the definition 'damage roll' was brought into this, other then to confuse the issue. The definition of the Vorpal weapon seems clear. "Whenever you roll the maximum result on any damage die for this weapon, roll that die again..." If they meant for you to reroll the weapon dice on crits, why not say "Whenever you receive the maximum result on any damage roll for this weapon, roll the weapon damage die again..."? Despite what some people think about how rules definitions and lawyering is the purview of 3.5, 4.0 seems to have quite the share. That this weapon clearly spells out the action of rolling seems to mean it intended the effect not to have you re-roll crit dice. Then again, maybe it does. The beauty of this is, I or the posters of this thread may never know. It's wizards. One CS representative may say one thing, another may say the opposite. Are there really that may level 30 games being run right now that it's that large of a problem? [/QUOTE]
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