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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IceBear" data-source="post: 521769" data-attributes="member: 1118">Well, at the time I decided to rule that way, it was hard to tell what was the house rule - all the damage into one check or seperate.I was firmly in the seperate camp (it was just simpler and that's what I read the passage to mean), but - I think it was Artoomis - there were some excellent arguments for all the damage into one check (using the same passage).  Thus, I decided to compromise on the issue.If you *REALLY* want to get into house rule land, and give someone a chance to disrupt a spell by laying down a good smacking on a spellcaster before he starts casting, I've seen some people use 1/2 damage before you start casting as a Concentration check too.  Whether or not you like this depends on how you feel about spellcasters I guess.  I don't have a real problem with spellcasters mixing it up in melee (just get a chance to hurt them more <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />) but if you do I can see why some might like that house rule.IceBear</blockquote>