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Didn't we get an example of this in one of the 5e launch streams? Something like Acquisitions Incorporated?

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...

I think @Maxperson covers this, but I'm talking about the case when reshuffling saves to attacks on defences. This is nearly identical...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Right, which is I think why we did see early attempts to make what the mechanics represented fictionally more transparent (We can...

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...