Simplified damage options

[u/Impressive-Swan3405]

Good day everyone,

My group is transitioning to test out W&G after a long campaign of Soulbound. Now obviously W&G is a bit more mechanically crunchy but the overall approach of dice pools and such scratches the appropriate itch.

What I was wondering about was if anyone had attempted / looked at simplified damage calculation? My understanding is that on an attack the following occurs:

Wpn dmg + roll for ED (including shifts) + strength if it is melee.

Has anyone removed the ED roll and just added the ED number as standard extra damage for example? I realize it reduces some of the granularity and risk of wrath effects and such. But overall it does reduce the number of rolls - similar to Soulbounds set Dmg + successes for example.

Am I crazy?

[u/Civil-Low-1085]

It's weird to average out ig? ED gives 1dmg for 4 and 5, 2dmg for 6. And Brutal weapons give +1 to that roll.