Pit Fighter wrote:

I was wondering what folks thought of a single d6 of damage for almost all weapons as a general system.  It's definitely new to me but I've been seeing it recently in games that I've been discovering (namely here with BoL and Zweihander).   I've been typically used to games with differing damage dice like or base static damage like in Forbidden Lands so the mechanic is new for me even as gamer playing for decades.   Besides simplicity, what are the benefits of this over differing damage dice?  I understand there is some variety within BoL with the H/L system on top of obviously differing stats added as a bonus but figured I'd ask.  Was this mainly used in BoL for a smaller range of damage possibilities because of the relatively low lifeblood/hp totals compared with D&D?

It was mainly used in BoL so that you could play the game with just the standard d6. However, as you suggest, also to limit the range of damage.
 

I have been running assorted one on one BoL campaigns now for the last 10 years or so for my wife and I.  (I have also run some short BoL campaigns for her and a friend or two in the past.)

For our BoL Sword and Sorcery campaigns (Hyborian Age, Beasts and Barbarians, Legends of Steel), we prefer to use the d6 for weapon damage solely.  (Small weapon d6L, regular weapons d6, and large weapons d6H).  Mastercraft, finely-made, or superior weapons get the feature of:   re-rolling any 1 on the damage dice (must keep the re-roll) and they only have a 50% or sometimes a 1/6 chance of breaking on a break weapon situation.  Some weapons may have an alchemical bonding of silver, to grant them the ability to damage/destroy certain creatures.  If a weapon is enchanted (highly unlikely, but sometimes possible - a d3 dice is added to the damage vs the particular foe/monster/etc..).

For our BoL Fantasy Campaigns we have sometimes used d4 for small weapons, d6 for med weapons and d8 for large weapons.  (Monsters still only use d6s though...)  Masterwork, finely-made, superior weapons work the same.  Enchanted weapons get to roll d4h, d6h, and d8h and sometimes get an additional d3 dice of damage vs a particular creature too, depends on how legendary the weapon is.

However, my wife really prefers to use the d6 dice solely, so lately our BoL Warhammer, BoL Witcher, and BoL Freeport campaigns have only used the d6 dice for weapon damage.  

Our "Hammer of Æs" Hyborian Age campaign was converted to BoL from the Mongoose d20 Conan system back around September of 2014 and is still going, in fact we are in the process of picking it up again after a few months layoff.  Converting the Signs and Portents adventure "Hunting the Falcon" by Leo LaDell over to it with hopes of running it this weekend.  (Or we might go back to our BoL Jalizar or BoL Warhammer campaign... choices, choices, choices 

Interesting to see what you've done, Sigulf. Thanks for sharing.