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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9220427" data-attributes="member: 6696971">The idea that “damage on a miss” is counterintuitive is bonkers to me. Every physical activity I’ve ever dedicated myself to or been forced upon me features:* An endocrine response which robs you of durability as intense clashes accrue.* A waning ability to recruit your best physical and emotional response as heart rate spikes and as high stakes, high energy events, and the demoralizing toll of inevitable micro-losses within those events/exchanges (refer to “90 % of the game is mental”) put your energy budget at an increasing deficit.* If it’s martial arts, slipping a punch, performing a feint, sprawling to foil a takedown/sweep are all costly and most of those come with collateral physical damage.Net = “damage on a miss” is the only thing that makes any sense whatsoever in a TTRPG system with ever-increasing damage expressions and HP values for creatures (D&D).</blockquote>