Additionally, you gain some bonus or malus depending of your weapon proficiency, check the info window when creating a character for more details. Finally, you can make 'Critical Hits', that is, you throw a 20 on a D20 (almost all attacks are calculated on a D20). Throwing a crit like this makes your screen shake (if you haven't turned this feature off) and does twice the usual amount of damage.
Some for dices: The difference between 1D8 and 2D4 are the possibilitys. With an 1D8 you have equal chances to threw a 1, 2, 3 ... with 2D4, you throw at min. 2 (2 x 1), but over many threws with 2D4, you get an average of 5, compared to the 1D8 where you get an average of 4.5, so 2D4 is usually better then 1D8. The same way works with 1D12 or 2D6.
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