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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7140266" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Eh, close enough. It's not so much exhaustion, as it was luck and magic and divine favor and a whole raft of other things, but it amounts to much the same thing. It looks like you're new around here, but the great HP debate is one that pops up frequently, and it's unlikely to be solved anytime soon.I guess the question is, given that you seem fine with it taking five sword hits to drop a knight and not-so-fine with it taking five arrow hits to drop a knight, what's the difference to you? Is it just that it's easier to abstract those sword hits into actually being near misses and partial parries, where it's harder for you to imagine an arrow hit being anything other than just that?Or is it the actual mechanical efficiency? Are you afraid that the multiple arrows from a fighter or ranger are not as effective as the single arrow from the rogue? Because I can assure you that two arrows each at 1d8+1d6+5 are indeed more effective than one arrow at 4d6+5. It couldn't be anything as simple as you forgetting to add Dex bonus to the damage of each arrow, could it? Because I know that's a new thing in 5E, and it would be easy to overlook.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7140266, member: 6775031"] Eh, close enough. It's not so much exhaustion, as it was luck and magic and divine favor and a whole raft of other things, but it amounts to much the same thing. It looks like you're new around here, but the great HP debate is one that pops up frequently, and it's unlikely to be solved anytime soon. I guess the question is, given that you seem fine with it taking five sword hits to drop a knight and not-so-fine with it taking five arrow hits to drop a knight, what's the difference to you? Is it just that it's easier to abstract those sword hits into actually being near misses and partial parries, where it's harder for you to imagine an arrow hit being anything other than just that? Or is it the actual mechanical efficiency? Are you afraid that the multiple arrows from a fighter or ranger are not as effective as the single arrow from the rogue? Because I can assure you that two arrows each at 1d8+1d6+5 are indeed more effective than one arrow at 4d6+5. It couldn't be anything as simple as you forgetting to add Dex bonus to the damage of each arrow, could it? Because I know that's a new thing in 5E, and it would be easy to overlook. [/QUOTE]

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