Recent content by Rejuvenator

I don't eat meat, so I don't eat pepperoni on pizza. One day, at a restaurant, my friend couldn't finish his pepperoni pizza, so he offered me the rest. I picked off the pepperoni, but I could still taste the pepperoni juice. It tasted sooo good, but I felt guilty enjoying it. So ya, certain...

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is like the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning" It sounds as if this rule exposes cracks in the system. "Hit", "miss", "damage", "slashing", "graze"... it sounds like these words are bugs.

Hmm, I'd say yes and maybe. Yes, because if the designers did that, it tells me they are trying to reconcile or connect the rule with the fiction that some/many people are imagining, and that's a good thing. Maybe, because I don't know if everyone will be imagining the consequences of the miss...

As I referenced a couple times, this general angle is also how I imagined the designers meant to convey it. As @Reef mentioned, maybe change it from "Graze" to something like "Deplete", and I'm halfway there... not 100%, but starting to see it more.

I'd think so. Like when this happened, that feels to me like John Wick having more hit points than in the first movie... I don't think any movie can accurately capture what happens in the average D&D game, but I do see John Wick's physical resilience as a decent visual of hit point-as-meat. I...

How about more John Wick? He takes a ton of meat damage, but he never grew bigger or more dense. (I say this as someone who sees hit points as a hybrid of body + mind + genre conceits -- the latter which I have a love-and-hate relationship with)

To me, I don't think this thread should be about hill-dying or feeling like we're being tasked to justify our preferences. To me, this IS what the thread is about: asking the obvious questions ("obvious" at least to the poster) about the rule, what it means in the fiction to us.

Sure, but I think to further @CleverNickName point, certain ways of imagining hit points may beg the question of what does the damage types actually mean (slashing, bludgeoning, etc.)? Why do melee weapons have that kind of granularity in describing weapon damage? Maybe the damage type is just a...

Why do you phrase it this way? "about time" sounds like someone talking in a reasonable tone. “but muh verisimilitude!” sounds like someone being a doofus.

Yep! Myself, I don't frame the liking or disliking of this rule through the lens of "whataboutism". Trying to understand the in-fiction aspect for the rule. For example, trying to wrap my head around the Dex 20 rogue cannot "completely dodge" the slashing damage of the Dex 6 fighter who...

Can someone please recap: what the various opinions from the community about graze on a miss? what is the in-fiction story that connects to the graze on a miss mechanic? what is the in-fiction story behind the rule that "this damage is the same type dealt by the weapon"? When I read the...

I doubt an engineer could give you a proper answer about is the function of something when you haven't defined to the engineer what exactly the thing is, as even slightly different things can have functions with different purpose(s) for various end users. I strongly suspect this thread (like so...

In Gracklstugh, they mention how duergar invisibility leads to law-abiding behaviour (you never know when a duergar is watching you invisibly). I imagine a sort of 1950's style paranoia where neighbours are spying on neighbours for subversive behaviour. Taboos against voyeurism perhaps? Any...

You think that Common is English? And that the gods spoke in Proto-Germanic which evolved into Common? OK. I didn't think that. I figured that D&D language has remained generally static over the centuries (just like many fantasy worlds have static technologies and don't evolve much in technology...

Stein, kalt... So the ancient giants who named the runes spoke in German? Or is it Old Norse?