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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4343751" data-attributes="member: 71571">Yes but the weapon damage rolled goes up.  In the end, that's what we're concerned with is multiple dice being involved with damage, which comes up -often- at epic tier.Often enough you -could- call it 'every single damage roll'.I just did the algebra on the average weapon damage for individual die rolls that don't explode vs. die rolls that do explode.Like right now.Let d = the number of sides on that die.Average die roll for a singular die that does not explode on a max roll is 1+d/2.Average die roll for a singular die that -does- explode on a max roll is d.The increase in damage then is equal to d - 1+d/2 = d - 1/2 - d/2 = d/2 - 1/2.So... the increase in damage from vorpal on a single die is d/2 - 1/2.What does this mean?  This means that the larger the die size, the greater the advantage from vorpal.For a 1d12 weapon, this turns out to be 12/2 - 1/2 = 5.5 extra damage per die.For a 2d4 weapon, each die is individually exploding, so you get 2 X (4/2 - 1/2) = 2 X (1.5) = 3 average damage difference.To -truly- compare, a 1d8 damage weapon's difference is (8/2 - 1/2) = (4 - 1/2) = 3.5 average damage difference.Seems that this mysterious fear of exploding d4 damage becoming out of hand is completely unfounded based on the math.</blockquote>