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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8825707" data-attributes="member: 7006">I agree that it is a rule that you should playtest for yourself to see if it is effective for your table.  Any cool new options a DM can add in to their table to make the game more fun and exciting for their players is awesome in my book.I do know though that personally it wouldn't find much benefit at my table, because rare is the situation where a single hit or miss is so imperative that changing a miss to a hit is going to be worth the time of tracking the penalties.  It's the same thinking which made me embrace the decision of 5E to eliminate all the small +1 and +2 bonuses and penalties and just switch over to Advantage/Disadvantage.  I don't find the combat rules so engaging that I want to get further into their weeds by adding back in all these little nitpicky additions and subtractions in an effort to make the combat more "strategic".  I play other games like Twilight Imperium or Terraforming Mars if I need to scratch that "tactics and strategy" itch.  I save D&D for the performance art.  <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>