Weapon Damages

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SO I'm wonderign something...

You see weapons that do say 1d8 or 1d6 or 2d6 or 2d4...

But you never see combinations of them... Such as 1d4 + 1d6 (Unless of course the + whatever comes from a magic source...)

Is there a specific reason for this?

 

[atom crash]

Probably for the sake of simplicity. Who wants to have to remember that their weapon does 1d6 + 1d4 damage? 1d10 is much simpler.

Also, the list of weapons that do multiple dice damage is a much smaller subset of all weapons, because it increases the minimum damage they deal. A quick glance through the SRD reveals only 6 (M-sized) weapons that do multiple dice of damage, and they are all two-handed weapons.