Taking and giving damage...

[Jackfrost]

Yo guys, I'm dming for a great group of friends when all of a sudden a monster pops out of a corner and slashes at the rouge. The rouge is suprised gets hit and then after initiative rolls, he goes first. He takes out his 2 short swords and attack the monster. he beats the ac roll and gets 2 criticals, (crit for both weapons) he rolls his d6*2 and then his other d6*2. it ends up being 24 damage.

What I think is wrong with that is that my party knows EXACTLY HOW much damage they deal!!!!

If there was a fight at a school, you can see to an extent who is hurt more. BUT WHAT YOU SOUDLN't know is how much exatly you do to the person.

My poll, if i did it right, is to find out from you people about if people should know how much damage they do or the dm rolls and computes the damage.

 

[Victim]

Having the player roll for damage is much faster.

It doesn't matter if you know how much damage you dealt if you don't know how many HP the creature has.

 

[Tsyr]

I think the point is moot as long as the players don't know how many hitpoints the monster has. The DM taking over roleing damage just wouldn't feel right, as a player. As a DM, I wouldn't want to do it either... too much hassle, for one thing.

 

[Crothian]

The DM has enough to do, so have the PCs roll damage is best. Plus, it gives them the false sense that they matter.

 

[Carnifex]

Oh hell yeah, players always roll damage in my campaigns. It's faster, its easier, you'd be surprised at how sometimes people know whether they've made a solid hit or just a glancing blow, adn if you still have a problem with them knowing how much damage they deal, then remember - they don't know how many hit points their target has!

 

[Jackfrost]

Agreed BUT! listen.

example: A fighter has 1 weapon, longsword that deals 1d8

he could damage somoeone for 1-8, so it would be something to take into consideration for the attacker. This way you wouln't know how much damage was given exactly, but around what might be given, 1-8.

 

[Jackfrost]

about the time thing, there is an easy program C++ that you can do that will automatically consider what weapon what monster what dex and any other modifiers given.

 

[Tsyr]

I'm still not following.

So what if a player knows how much damage he does? He doesn't know how many hitpoints his target has, so it really doesn't matter. Besides, I think that giving a numerical value is much easier than trying to think up euphamisms for damage... ya know, carp like "It was a mighty blow", "You barely nicked him", things like that... which, anyhow, sorta go back to the whole "Why bother, it accomplishes the same thing in the end" point.

 

[Carnifex]

*looks baffled*

But there are these easy things called dice, and the players roll them, and for those of us who don't know programming languages or C++ or anything it's quite a lot easier.

 

[Zappo]

*looks baffled*

But there are these easy things called dice, and the players roll them, and for those of us who don't know programming languages or C++ or anything it's quite a lot easier.

Tsk. You are so old-fashioned.