So a player of mine asked me a question at the table last night about Magic weapons and Damage Dice. He has recently been watching MCDMs “the Chain”, and on the show Matt tells one of his players to roll their Damage Dice twice, because their weapon is Magical. My player had good intentions, and was just curious about it. I had never heard of this rule, so I told him as so, and promised to look into it, because that dramatically changes the balance of 5e (or at least my understanding of it)
anyway, when I looked into it (via DMG/PHB) I couldnt seem to find any rule that says that when using a magic Item you roll their Damage Dice twice. Is this a rule from an Older edition? I’ve only played 5e, never had the chance to play the older incarnations.
Can you get your Player to point out an example? Shouldn't be hard since The Chain is all on YouTube.
What many people do is roll double damage dice for Natural 20 / Critical Hits - but even then, that's a house rule. Perhaps your Player is seeing that happening and attributing it to the weapon being magical?
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I couldnt seem to find any rule that says that when using a magic Item you roll their Damage Dice twice
RAW (read as written) I don't think there is a rule like this in general for 5e. Matt may be using a "house rule" in his game for a special weapon or special class he has homebrewed.
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So a player of mine asked me a question at the table last night about Magic weapons and Damage Dice. He has recently been watching MCDMs “the Chain”, and on the show Matt tells one of his players to roll their Damage Dice twice, because their weapon is Magical. My player had good intentions, and was just curious about it. I had never heard of this rule, so I told him as so, and promised to look into it, because that dramatically changes the balance of 5e (or at least my understanding of it)
anyway, when I looked into it (via DMG/PHB) I couldnt seem to find any rule that says that when using a magic Item you roll their Damage Dice twice. Is this a rule from an Older edition? I’ve only played 5e, never had the chance to play the older incarnations.
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I've not heard of that before, either.
Can you get your Player to point out an example? Shouldn't be hard since The Chain is all on YouTube.
What many people do is roll double damage dice for Natural 20 / Critical Hits - but even then, that's a house rule. Perhaps your Player is seeing that happening and attributing it to the weapon being magical?
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That is certainly not a general rule in 5e.
It could be the magic effect of that specific weapon, either doing double damage or criting at lower rolls.
I don't know any older editions, but I haven't heard anyone mention that being a thing before.
RAW (read as written) I don't think there is a rule like this in general for 5e. Matt may be using a "house rule" in his game for a special weapon or special class he has homebrewed.
"An' things ha' come to a pretty pass, ye ken, if people are going to leave stuff like that aroound where innocent people could accidentally smash the door doon and lever the bars aside and take the big chain off'f the cupboard and pick the lock and drink it!"