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23 questions linked to/from Which damage dice exactly does the Great Weapon Fighting fighting style allow you to reroll?
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How much damage does Great Weapon Fighting add on average?
The Great Weapon Fighting fighting style states the following:
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll ...
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Can my players abuse this homebrew Blade of the Thirst magic item?
I am designing a homebrew magic item. I think I have it balanced but need to know if there are any loopholes I have not seen.
Blade of the thirst, magical longsword, requires attunement, versatile, ...
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How does Savage Attacker interact with Great Weapon Fighting style?
The Savage Attacker feat states (PHB p169):
Once per turn when you roll damage for a melee weapon attack, you can reroll the weapon's damage dice and use either total.
The Great Weapon Fighting ...
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Does the Savage Attacker feat let you reroll Sneak Attack damage dice?
The Savage Attacker feat (PHB, p. 169) states:
Once per turn when you roll damage for a melee weapon attack, you can reroll the weapon’s damage dice and use either total.
Additionally, the rogue'...
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Does Great Weapon Fighting allow extra damage from a Battle Master fighter's Superiority Dice to be rerolled? [duplicate]
Great Weapon Fighting states:
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new ...
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Is hitting creatures with Steel Wind Strike considered "using" a weapon?
Steel wind strike's spell description (XGtE, p. 166) states:
You flourish the weapon used in the casting and then vanish to strike like the wind. Choose up to five creatures you can see within range. ...
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What are weapon damage dice?
Following discussion here, what constitutes a weapon damage die?
Is it any damage die dealt by the weapon? For example, consider a Flame Tongue longsword.
While the sword is ablaze, it deals an ...
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What might be the downside of taking the Dueling fighting style over Great Weapon Fighting?
Taken from the Player's Handbook - Fighter's Fighting Styles (p. 72)
Dueling When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that ...
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Can a fighter with the Great Weapon Fighting fighting style reroll his damage many times?
A situation arose yesterday wherein a player with a fighter that had the Great Weapon Fighting fighting style rolled a '1' on his damage. He re-rolled and got a '2'. He re-rolled AGAIN and got a '4'.
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Can you reroll both dice or only one when Great Weapon Fighting with a Greatsword?
GWF let's you reroll the die if it's a 1 and 2, so in the instance of a Greatsword do you reroll only one of those die if both land on a 1 or a 2, or both? I imagine if you could reroll both it would ...
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How does the extra fire damage from the Helm of Brilliance item interact with the Great Weapon Fighting fighting style?
The item Helm of Brilliance includes a feature that reads (DMG, 173):
You can use an action and speak a command word to cause one weapon you are holding to burst into flames. [...] When you hit ...
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How does the Great Weapon Fighting fighting style interact with critical hits and the half-orc's Savage Attacks trait?
We know that the Great Weapon Fighting fighting style allows the rerolling of all 1 and 2s that come from a weapon taking the new roll.
If a player using a Greatsword gets a critical hit and rolls ...
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Are extra effects considered weapon damage on a sword of sharpness?
The Sword of Sharpness says:
When you attack an object with this magic sword and hit, maximize your weapon damage dice against the target.
Do some other effects (language use is intentional) add ...
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Which dice do the Potion of Giant Size triple when making a weapon attack?
Consider the Potion of Giant Size, from Storm King's Thunder (p. 236, Appendix B):
Everything you are carrying and wearing also increases in size for the duration. When rolling damage for weapons ...
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What is the effect of the “attack's weapon” doing extra damage?
In Xanathar's Guide to Everything (p. 30), the Cavalier Fighter's Unwavering Mark feature says:
In addition, if a creature marked by you deals damage to anyone other than you, you can make a ...