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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 3977959" data-attributes="member: 5143">Because you want to have a fairly predictable average damage while still giving enough randomness to make the game interesting.  If you told all players they'd be doing 3 damage a round regardless of rolling they'd stop playing.On the other hand, in order to balance a game effectively, you need LESS randomness.  Because you can't do math to figure out about how long a character will live in a battle against an enemy if there is enough randomness that any time a monster gets a crit it ends the battle that round.There is still a large amount of randomness.  On any particular round you might miss or might do minimum damage.  But now combat is a bit more predictable.In general, people like strategy and planning.  DMs like to plan out an entire adventure and be 90% certain that all the players will survive if they want them to.  Players want to know that if they use good tactics and teamwork against reasonable opponents that they will win.  In order for these assumptions to work most of the time you need to reduce the randomness.</blockquote>