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<blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8615191" data-attributes="member: 6987520">I must admit I am a bit surprised you didn't take the route more directly supported by 5E...[ATTACH=full]156028[/ATTACH]However, even that leaves it open due to the &quot;other trauma&quot;. Again, you assume the ant bite probably caused a bleeding injury, but the point is the narrative supports &quot;striking you directly&quot;, not the &quot;ant barely missed so caused a heart attack&quot; I said could happen. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />And yes, I am being very technical, and that was my intention. Because, again, in such things the game doesn't give you enough information to know what happened for certain--other than a successful attack and a reduction of hit points. Lacking specific information gleaned from the mechanics of the game--it is all fluff.Feel free to disagree, of course, because as the highlighted text above shows, according to the actual rules, the only attack that we know ever actually hits (that is &quot;strikes directly&quot;) a creature--is the one that takes it to 0 hit point.That is the only case--everything else is just &quot;successful attack&quot; and &quot;reduce hit points&quot;.So... what about my longbow and STR-based mechanics comment? Do you have anything to say about that part of the post? You seemed to have missed it. (Maybe for later?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DND_Reborn, post: 8615191, member: 6987520"] I must admit I am a bit surprised you didn't take the route more directly supported by 5E... [ATTACH type="full" width="506px"]156028[/ATTACH] However, even that leaves it open due to the "other trauma". Again, you assume the ant bite probably caused a bleeding injury, but the point is the narrative supports "striking you directly", not the "ant barely missed so caused a heart attack" I said could happen. ;) And yes, I am being [I]very technical[/I], and that was my intention. Because, again, in such things the game doesn't give you enough information to know what happened for certain--other than a successful attack and a reduction of hit points. Lacking specific information gleaned from the mechanics of the game--it is all fluff. Feel free to disagree, of course, because as the highlighted text above shows, according to the actual rules, the only attack that we [I]know[/I] ever actually [B]hits[/B] (that is "strikes directly") a creature--is the one that takes it to 0 hit point. That is the only case--everything else is just "successful attack" and "reduce hit points". So... what about my longbow and STR-based mechanics comment? Do you have anything to say about that part of the post? You seemed to have missed it. (Maybe for later?) [/QUOTE]

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