FriendlyMerchant
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>It doesn't seem like power attack cares about your STR
I think it does. Here's a character with 20 STR. He's doing more damage with Power Attack. I think its working.
That's just the flat STR bonus. 1d4+ 5 (str) + 1 power attack. It's only 1 because it looks like the game is interpreting the weapon as an off-hand or maybe it just acts weird with finesse weapons. Switch to fists or test out a long sword. It will be 1d3 + 5 (STR) + 2 power attack.