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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9100394" data-attributes="member: 5142">Kevin Crawford's OSR game Worlds Without Number works similarly to this, except minimum damage is also gated by the specific weapon and the opponent's AC. So certain weapons will always do a minimum amount of "Shock damage" even if they miss and if the target's AC is a certain value or less. So a Long Sword does 2/AC 13. So even if I do not land solid hit by beating the opponent's AC 12, my Long Sword will inflict 2 + Strength modifier in damage.You mean like casting a spell and the target spends one of their limited healing surges allowing them to regain one-quarter of their total HP value plus the amount specified in the spell? Sounds like a great idea.You keep using that term. But I don't think that that term means what you think it means.Now please enjoy this light-hearted meme that I made for you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />[ATTACH=full]292801[/ATTACH]I don't think that labeling everything that you dislike as a "narrative mechanic" is a particularly meaningful, insightful, or accurate definition, and it will likely involve many non-narrative mechanics getting called "narrative mechanics" simply on the basis of your idiomatic preferences (as per the above).</blockquote>