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<blockquote data-quote="Mordhau" data-source="post: 8528907" data-attributes="member: 7032137">The perception of Strength changes over time.It used to be understood that you used Strength to overcome armour, not to actually land the blow, but in the 80s and 90s this often came to be seen as stupid.&nbsp; More modern systems were seen as using Strength for Damage and agility or dexterity to hit and using some kind of resistance mechanic for armour.3e modernised a lot of things but it didn't modernise this, and it ended up being reinterpreted alongside the pop culture inspired re-understanding of Strength as being part of functional strength, and movement and agility without strength came to be seen as unrealistic too.&nbsp; After a while rather than D&amp;D being the outlier among games in using Strength to hit, other cames started to copy it as well.&nbsp; (In part also because it started to be realised that Strength could be hard to justify as an attrbute generally).I don't know where exactly where we are now.&nbsp; I guess, we're at the point where it's apparent that fidelity to a 50 year old game takes precedence over what makes sense in reality anyway and it's clear that if the game can't even admit that studded leather armour doesn't exist and doesn't make any sense then rethinking how attacks are made is probably a bridge too far.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mordhau, post: 8528907, member: 7032137"] The perception of Strength changes over time. It used to be understood that you used Strength to overcome armour, not to actually land the blow, but in the 80s and 90s this often came to be seen as stupid. More modern systems were seen as using Strength for Damage and agility or dexterity to hit and using some kind of resistance mechanic for armour. 3e modernised a lot of things but it didn't modernise this, and it ended up being reinterpreted alongside the pop culture inspired re-understanding of Strength as being part of functional strength, and movement and agility without strength came to be seen as unrealistic too. After a while rather than D&D being the outlier among games in using Strength to hit, other cames started to copy it as well. (In part also because it started to be realised that Strength could be hard to justify as an attrbute generally). I don't know where exactly where we are now. I guess, we're at the point where it's apparent that fidelity to a 50 year old game takes precedence over what makes sense in reality anyway and it's clear that if the game can't even admit that studded leather armour doesn't exist and doesn't make any sense then rethinking how attacks are made is probably a bridge too far. [/QUOTE]

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