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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8494592" data-attributes="member: 42856">The scratches were misses. Your AC is probably 12  (cloth armor, plus you hopped several time on a foot without falling, so you DEX is higher than average, unless you're trained in Acrobatics, which isn't given by the Computer Scientist background -- I assume you're a human). According to your description, the cat was trying to attack the other Cat (AC 12) from which you provided cover (+2). Using the DMG's optional friendly fire rules, the cover (you) is hit only when the hit is turned into a miss due to cover. The attacking cat was out of reach of the other cat and could'nt damage him, but you could still be hit 10% of the time. Assuming the fight lasted less than 40 rounds on average, you still had 1 HP left, and so you were 100% operational and a full night of rest was enough to heal you completely. Had the fight lasted one minute more, you'd have keeled over. You were close!The rules are 100% realistic. Look at otters. They are a threat to people apparently <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/10/i-thought-i-was-going-to-die-otters-attack-british-man-in-singapore-park" target="_blank">‘I thought I was going to die’: otters attack British man in Singapore park</a> and yet, cats are routinely killing otters. As a piece of concording evidence, "A <a href="http://www.otterspecialistgroup.org/Bulletin/Volume28/Belanger_et_al_2011.html" target="_blank">2011 analysis</a> by researchers from the Oceanographic Environmental Research Society found that 39 wild otter attacks had been reported since 1875, with most of them occurring in the past 20 years." That's logical: otters started becoming a threat with the release of the 3rd edition, when reality shifted to accomodate the new ruleset.Count your blessings for surviving your encounter with a cat. On the minus side, you apparently couldn't get any XP for defeating it.Before, I was imagining a dragon attack as Smaug thrashing Lake Town. Now, I imagine a walled city with a horn signalling air intrusion and the 46 1st-level wizard conscripted into AA service to chant "magic missile" and the sorcerers at the other side of the city chanting "distant magic missile". Or, even worse, 46 commoners using a wand of magic missile (total investment 23,000 gp). Much cheaper and more efficient than the highly qualified manpower or archers. Thank your for ruining my childhood memories!If all 46 of them were 1st level spellcasters, they'd reach 3rd level after activating their wand and butchering the air threat. That's how you forge heroes these days... After that I guess they are given a Shielding brooch and sent to keep in check the warlords outfitting mercenaries with wands of magic missles and extract ransom from villages.</blockquote>

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