Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5139976" data-attributes="member: 3424">I think 4e is robust enough that an extra +1 to damage per tier won't break most games. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> If I remember correctly, the real balance concern was that certain brutal 2 one-die [W] weapons became brutal 2 two-die [W] weapons when the standard method of increasing the [W] of a larger-sized weapon was applied. This led to a more than +1 bonus to damage on average.That it stacks with Superior Weapon Proficiency and Weapon Focus is a nod to tying flavor with rules and in-game logic. The increase to damage is supposed to come from using a larger-than-normal weapon, which is separate from the ability to use a better weapon or generic weapon skill. Perhaps the need to change the flavor of the bugbear ability was implicit in your suggestion to give a bonus feat, so that the racial ability is one of extra weapon training instead of using a larger weapon. However, my suggestion was a way to retain the flavor while using more balanced mechanics. A flat bonus to damage does not change the number of dice per [W] and would thus avoid the brutal issue, for example.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 5139976, member: 3424"] I think 4e is robust enough that an extra +1 to damage per tier won't break most games. :) If I remember correctly, the real balance concern was that certain brutal 2 one-die [W] weapons became brutal 2 two-die [W] weapons when the standard method of increasing the [W] of a larger-sized weapon was applied. This led to a more than +1 bonus to damage on average. That it stacks with Superior Weapon Proficiency and Weapon Focus is a nod to tying flavor with rules and in-game logic. The increase to damage is supposed to come from using a larger-than-normal weapon, which is separate from the ability to use a better weapon or generic weapon skill. Perhaps the need to change the flavor of the bugbear ability was implicit in your suggestion to give a bonus feat, so that the racial ability is one of extra weapon training instead of using a larger weapon. However, my suggestion was a way to retain the flavor while using more balanced mechanics. A flat bonus to damage does not change the number of dice per [W] and would thus avoid the brutal issue, for example. [/QUOTE]

Verification