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You claimed that there was a difference between Save for Half and Damage on a Miss based on the fiction. I demonstrated that this...

Sorry, should have clarified, the detail of this analysis is really only relevant from 3e onwards where both the attacker and defenders...

Absolutely - I certainly agree it's something that people can find feeling awkward after being used to something one way. It's...

Sure, but as I note above, the difference between a making a save and missing an attack is purely administrative. You can even invert...

No, not at all. You can trivially change who rolls and produce identical results and identical fiction. The only difference is a...

I think this is pretty common - Save for Half is, essentially, identical to Damage on a Miss - the only difference is who rolls the dice

I'll not speak for @Hussar here, but I think the point here is that there are many circumstances whereby, in D&D (let's use 3.5 for...

Isn't "eeking out any way to improve the mechanical position of their PCs" exactly what players in a trad game is meant to be doing...

I'm interested how you determine how many checks you need for this more granular style - we all know that the more checks are made, the...

If you want to be ever so slightly charitable, the failure caused the guard to harass our singer. I highly doubt that anyone narrates...

The argument, I think, would be that experimentation with resource systems might lead the designers to find one that they really liked...

Grand, does that have any impact on the concept that we can analyse whether or not the changes did or did not have precedent based on...

I don't think that's relevant - the text is the text and we can see if the things being held up as new feature are actually new or not...

For 3e? The stat blocks in the relevant monster manuals. Mobs are described here : Template - Mobs - sorry, don't have the original...

It's something that we can determine fairly straighforwardly by looking at the text. There's very little mechanically in there that...