How does "savage attack" work with with "great weapon fighting"?

[Russalot]

if I'm using a great-sword for 2d6 and i have SA with GWF do I roll two sets of 2d6 re-roll any 1s or 2s then keep the highest?
Example:
fist set (2d6, 4+5=)9
2nd set (2D6 1RR: 4 2RR:6 =) 10

so i keep the 2nd set and do 10 damage?

[Szorrin]

Are we talking about 'Savage Attacks', the Half-Orc racial feat, or the 'Savage Attacker' feat?

[Russalot]

Savage attacker the feat

[Szorrin]

So, GWF says: "When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack with a two-handed melee weapon, that die is rerolled once."

Savage Attacker says: "When making weapon attacks, you roll your damage dice twice and use the highest result."

The wording is different from tabletop 5e, based on that, how I think this should work is: Savage Attacker rolls your damage dice twice (so 4d6), GWF rerolls any 1s or 2s once, then Savage Attacker picks the two highest rolls. I doubt this is how it actually works in game, though. Savage Attacker just triggers automatically, instead of you choosing to use it, which means GWF is likely less useful, as it probably takes effect after Savage Attacker has already picked the highest two dice.

All I can recommend is testing it yourself.

[Russalot]

Figured it out, does not stack the way I was hoping example of how it works below

1st set
R1= 1 RR 4
R2= 3
R3= 6
R4= 4

2nd set
R5= 4 RR 5
R6= 3 RR 2
R7= 6
R8= 4 RR 4

dice are compaired as sets R1&R5=5, R2&R6=3, R3&R7=6, R4&R8=4 total damage 18

the 1st set re-rolls all 1 and 2s the second set all count as re-rolls due to the 1st set. Max rolls are all ways kept (see R3 and R7)

[Gaius]

Originally posted by Szorrin:

So, GWF says: "When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack with a two-handed melee weapon, that die is rerolled once."

Savage Attacker says: "When making weapon attacks, you roll your damage dice twice and use the highest result."

The wording is different from tabletop 5e, based on that, how I think this should work is: Savage Attacker rolls your damage dice twice (so 4d6), GWF rerolls any 1s or 2s once, then Savage Attacker picks the two highest rolls. I doubt this is how it actually works in game, though. Savage Attacker just triggers automatically, instead of you choosing to use it, which means GWF is likely less useful, as it probably takes effect after Savage Attacker has already picked the highest two dice.

All I can recommend is testing it yourself.

I assume the "Attacker rolls your damage dice twice" means you cannot pick ONE dice of the roll to change, it should be the result of the dice roll. So you'd rodd 2D6 twice and grab the best combination, not roll 4D6 and pick the 4 higher numbers.

Here's how I expect it ro work:

Roll 2 groups of 2D6
In each group, reroll the 1s and 2s once.

Then compare the groups and pick the better result.

[Russalot]

my bad, i should of clarified in the above example it was a crit. But in the example is how BG3 does it