Damage question

[Rupert]

Originally Posted by Ultraviolet

When this edition came out, my understanding was what you did not convert adds to extra dice, so I insisted to my co-players that we didn't. It is almost completeley an accepted fact now, and the issue never comes up.
One point was to not complicate the "+1/die" modifiers and the like.

It's an optional rule (box, B269). I don't use it because of the possibility of confusion over when to do the conversion. Also, some people I've played with could be relied upon to try to convert only when it'd move +7 to 2d, and not when it would be +4 to 1d, because they'd wanted the swing of more dice, but not the slight loss of average damage from +4 = 1d. Rather than argue with them all the damned time, I said "My games don't use that optional rule". On top of that, it's a further step in damage calculation, that doesn't bring any real advantage to make up for the extra time taken.