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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 6789478" data-attributes="member: 23751">Contact could be a real miss, though.  You can hit shield or armor and do no damage.  Unless the DM narrates that every hit point is 100% meat and a hit must strike the body and draw blood, and each hit point draws an exact amount of blood, there's no way for a PC to know how much damage he's doing or when he hits.In my experience, this rarely happens.  Even when it does, those DMs also narrate misses as impacting shields and armor, which negates the PCs ability to know when he has hit via an impact.  Other than when blood is drawn, though.  Even when blood is drawn, the result of a large hit can be a scratch if the creature has a lot of hit points.</blockquote>