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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RigaMortus2" data-source="post: 5922891" data-attributes="member: 11586">But D&D goes against the whole "luck and skill" thing, which it is trying to argue for.  A hit is not always a hit, and a miss is not always a miss (look at attacks which still deal damage on a miss).If a 60 hit point Fighter falls 60 feet and takes 25 points of damage, did he really take that damage?  Wouldn't his legs be broken?  Wouldn't he be at the very lease bruised and bloodied?  Not according to the rule above.  Yet, if a 10 hit point Fighther falls the same distance, and also takes 25 points of damage, they are dead.  Doesn't make sense as Mearls is trying to rationalize "luck and skill".  Damage is damage...If an NPC shoots an arrow at a Fighter and hits their AC, but does nominal damage, you can say "it wasn't really a hit, the Fighter dodged out of way in time, and the "damage" you take represents luck or skill".  But now add poison to that arrow, and the Fighter now has to make a Fort save vs poison, then obviously he DID get hit, it wasn't him using luck or skill to avoid the shot.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />Also, how do you describe Sneak Attack?  That is precision damage.  It spells out in the description that you are striking the vitals of a creature.  So if a Rogue deals 1d4 dagger damage and +2d6 sneak attack damage, but only takes off like 10% of hit points from a full health opponent...  Did he REALLY hit the opponent, or did the opponent use luck and skill to avoid the attack (but they still take off x hit points)?  Well, it HAS to be a real hit, right?  After all, you are hitting a vital spot, you are rolling sneak attack damage.  That goes right against the whole arguement of a hit not always really a hit.All that being said, this I like ^^^</blockquote>

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