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Snow Mage Ddon
August 20th, 2025, 02:30
The Great Weapon Fighting feat is intended to create a damage floor of 3 for damage rolls with a two handed weapon. Excerpt from description:

"When you roll damage for an attack you make with a Melee weapon that you are holding with two hands, you can treat any 1 or 2 on a damage die as a 3. The weapon must have the Two-Handed or Versatile property to gain this benefit."

Currently it does this only for the base damage die of the weapon. If there are additional dice added from effects, or even from critical hit, these dice do not benefit from the damage floor of 3.

Moon Wizard
August 20th, 2025, 06:19
We implemented based on this ruling from the D&D designers.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/sae/sage-advice-compendium#FeatGreatWeaponFighting

Regards,
JPG