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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xsjado" data-source="post: 4255395" data-attributes="member: 67574">While it is true that feel is an important factor here, doing slightly more average damage to each opponent isn't necessarily as useful as being able to do massive damage to one opponent.It all depends on the situation. Statistically they work out the same but in practice a crit in the right place can make all the difference. If you've ever played TF2 you'll know how effective an uber can be at the right time. Its slightly different in that case because there is more control, but the ability to be invulnerable for 10 seconds could be balanced the same way by making everyone slightly more resistant to damage. However, that would be less fun and tactically a well paced uber can break a stalemate. The game also has criticals and these are also game making events. Being killed in one shot when you were on full health is very frustrating, especially if your living could have prevented an enemy capture. So random but massive amounts of damage do have an effect on the game, beyond mere statistics. In TF2 having the luck to make several crits in a row can win a match, and the same is equally true of DnD.RE: vorpal diceWhile small dice have a higher chance of doing their maximum amount of damage, bigger dice will always do more total damage even if it isn't their maximum. A d4 could explode once to give you 7 damage but a d8 has a 25% chance to at least that much or more. A d10 or d12 can also easily do that much damage without exploding at all.</blockquote>

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