Ranged weapon damage bugged? - 15/10/20 02:10 AM
I've done some searching around to see if this is a known issue or not and I haven't yet seen it mentioned, and if it has been, I missed it, and I apologize.
I'm having an incredibly annoying experience with ranged weapon attacks, specifically the shortbow. I noticed it was odd in my first attempted playthrough when I was a rogue. I looked it up then and people have been saying sneak attack is super bugged, so I decided to reroll and picked a ranger this time. Problem is, the issue is still happening. Every time I hit any creature with my shortbow attacks, they deal exactly either 3 or 4 damage. Thing is, 3 damage shouldn't even be possible considering my dex mod is +3 just by itself. So the damage MINIMUM is 4 from being 1d6+3. However, I roll 3s about half the time, and 4s the other half. And it isn't just my ranger either, it's also the fighter with her shortbow. Always 3 or 4 damage exactly, even when she scored a critical hit once! I tested this over 20 times, and every single ranged attack with the starting shortbows were 3 or 4 damage.
Is it just me having this problem? I legitimately couldn't find a single other mention of this outside of people complaining about how sneak attack damage works, and this issue seems unrelated.
I'm having an incredibly annoying experience with ranged weapon attacks, specifically the shortbow. I noticed it was odd in my first attempted playthrough when I was a rogue. I looked it up then and people have been saying sneak attack is super bugged, so I decided to reroll and picked a ranger this time. Problem is, the issue is still happening. Every time I hit any creature with my shortbow attacks, they deal exactly either 3 or 4 damage. Thing is, 3 damage shouldn't even be possible considering my dex mod is +3 just by itself. So the damage MINIMUM is 4 from being 1d6+3. However, I roll 3s about half the time, and 4s the other half. And it isn't just my ranger either, it's also the fighter with her shortbow. Always 3 or 4 damage exactly, even when she scored a critical hit once! I tested this over 20 times, and every single ranged attack with the starting shortbows were 3 or 4 damage.
Is it just me having this problem? I legitimately couldn't find a single other mention of this outside of people complaining about how sneak attack damage works, and this issue seems unrelated.