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You've been confused I'm afraid. In your example your "melee die" equals your strength die + 3, so you do get the +3 on melee every time.On the card says DIE and not check.
It 'the same thing?
thanks
A check is the target you are rolling against. A die is not the same as a skill, but a skill can be a die plus a bonus.
When a weapon says to roll your melee die, you use what is defined by your melee skill, the die for melee here being defined as strength + 3. Basically the melee skill on Valeros always grants at least a d10+3 when used for a check.
If a check required your strength die, and you had strength+1, you don't lose the +1 just because it said die and not skill. If you used melee in that case the pluses stack, so it would be d10+4.
As far as I know the cards usually reference rolling dice and not skills, which by this interpretation would make every bonus useless.