I played D&D 4e with a group of childhood friends for a few years in college. One of them was bipolar. Anyways we had been playing 4e for two years. New campaign. We were using character builder, which spat out our damage damage for us in the following notation:
X[w] + Stat
For those who don’t know, 4e made use of “Powers” which are basically spells as you might think of how those function in 5e. Martial classes bought a weapon, which was a series of properties that carried over through out all your powers. That notates as [w], so the longsword has [w]= 1d8. Powers vary in how powerful they were. Each class has At-will, encounter, and Dailys… similar in function to short and long rest recharging abilities. My point is that encounters or dailys might do 2[w] or 3[w] or 4[w]. Use a longsword with Villain’s Menace and its 3d8. Then add your strength.
He saw 1[d8] + 5
My friend rolled his damage. He saw the +5 noted for his strength, and then he forgot it was for that and added 5 again.
So he rolled 1d8 +5 +5
I told him he only added 5 once. This blossomed into an argument which carried on for an hour. He went home. And then the next day he sent me over 2000 words on facebooks in threats and death messages.
A week later, he messaged me again, and noted that I was right. He apologized. And then he told me I could have been less of an asshole.
I played D&D 4e with a group of childhood friends for a few years in college. One of them was bipolar. Anyways we had been playing 4e for two years. New campaign. We were using character builder, which spat out our damage damage for us in the following notation:
X[w] + Stat
For those who don’t know, 4e made use of “Powers” which are basically spells as you might think of how those function in 5e. Martial classes bought a weapon, which was a series of properties that carried over through out all your powers. That notates as [w], so the longsword has [w]= 1d8. Powers vary in how powerful they were. Each class has At-will, encounter, and Dailys… similar in function to short and long rest recharging abilities. My point is that encounters or dailys might do 2[w] or 3[w] or 4[w]. Use a longsword with Villain’s Menace and its 3d8. Then add your strength.
He saw 1[d8] + 5
My friend rolled his damage. He saw the +5 noted for his strength, and then he forgot it was for that and added 5 again.
So he rolled 1d8 +5 +5
I told him he only added 5 once. This blossomed into an argument which carried on for an hour. He went home. And then the next day he sent me over 2000 words on facebooks in threats and death messages.
A week later, he messaged me again, and noted that I was right. He apologized. And then he told me I could have been less of an asshole.