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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6763137" data-attributes="member: 6799649"><p>The 'amount of damage done by an attack' is a related but different thing than 'the amount of hit points lost from that attack'.</p><p></p><p>If a raging barbarian gets hit by an attack that deals 30 points of damage, you apply <strong>all</strong> 30, even though the target's hp only get reduced by 15.</p><p></p><p>If you deal 80 hp of damage to someone with 50 hit points, you <em>must</em> apply <em>all</em> of those 80 points, and the fact that the target's hp are only reduced by 50 doesn't change the damage that the attack dealt.</p><p></p><p>As for showing you the rules that say you cannot do less damage: the rules tell you what they <strong>are</strong>, they do not tell you what the rules are <strong>not!</strong> If the rules tell you that 'this attack' does 80 damage, <em>this is the rule that tells you that you do exactly 80 damage!</em> Unless you can point to another rule which lets you alter that, then you <strong>must</strong> do that amount of damage; you have no permission to do a different amount.</p><p></p><p>This is a permissive rules set; you cannot do whatever you like unless the rules tell us you cannot, the rules tell you what you are allowed to do (in terms of game mechanics). You cannot roll an attack, roll 1, and then say, "No, I'll call that a 2 instead". You cannot roll a 20 and say "No, I'll call that a 19 instead". And you cannot roll 80 damage and say, "No, I'll call that 53 instead".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 6763137, member: 6799649"] The 'amount of damage done by an attack' is a related but different thing than 'the amount of hit points lost from that attack'. If a raging barbarian gets hit by an attack that deals 30 points of damage, you apply [b]all[/b] 30, even though the target's hp only get reduced by 15. If you deal 80 hp of damage to someone with 50 hit points, you [i]must[/i] apply [i]all[/i] of those 80 points, and the fact that the target's hp are only reduced by 50 doesn't change the damage that the attack dealt. As for showing you the rules that say you cannot do less damage: the rules tell you what they [b]are[/b], they do not tell you what the rules are [b]not![/b] If the rules tell you that 'this attack' does 80 damage, [i]this is the rule that tells you that you do exactly 80 damage![/i] Unless you can point to another rule which lets you alter that, then you [b]must[/b] do that amount of damage; you have no permission to do a different amount. This is a permissive rules set; you cannot do whatever you like unless the rules tell us you cannot, the rules tell you what you are allowed to do (in terms of game mechanics). You cannot roll an attack, roll 1, and then say, "No, I'll call that a 2 instead". You cannot roll a 20 and say "No, I'll call that a 19 instead". And you cannot roll 80 damage and say, "No, I'll call that 53 instead". [/QUOTE]
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