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Didn't we get an example of this in one of the 5e launch streams? Something like Acquisitions Incorporated?
Jun 24, 2025
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It's not quite player rolls or dm rolls - it's attacker rolls or defender rolls. The example in the 3e UA is player rolls, but it's...
Jun 24, 2025
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I think @Maxperson covers this, but I'm talking about the case when reshuffling saves to attacks on defences. This is nearly identical...
Jun 24, 2025
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Perhaps I'm not being clear here. I'm not even talking about a narrativist case here, just purely 3/5e D&D. In basic operation of the...
Jun 23, 2025
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I think the idea here is that in some implementations of this (I want to say some early CoC, but that might not be right, or possibly...
Jun 23, 2025
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Yeah. I mentioned this in a different thread recently. Damage on a miss with weapons bugs the hell out of me, but damage on a miss...
Jun 23, 2025
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Sure, but mechanically all a miss means is that you didn't reach the target number on the die - you can absolutely shuffle who rolls and...
Jun 23, 2025
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Right, which is I think why we did see early attempts to make what the mechanics represented fictionally more transparent (We can...
Jun 23, 2025
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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...
Jun 23, 2025
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Sorry, should have clarified, the detail of this analysis is really only relevant from 3e onwards where both the attacker and defenders...
Jun 23, 2025
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Absolutely - I certainly agree it's something that people can find feeling awkward after being used to something one way. It's...
Jun 23, 2025
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Sure, but as I note above, the difference between a making a save and missing an attack is purely administrative. You can even invert...
Jun 23, 2025
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No, not at all. You can trivially change who rolls and produce identical results and identical fiction. The only difference is a...
Jun 23, 2025
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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
Jun 23, 2025
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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...
Jun 21, 2025
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