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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9363846" data-attributes="member: 4937">The issue is in the typical D&amp;D proposition-&gt;fortune-&gt;resolution cycle.&nbsp;&nbsp; Normally &quot;stakes&quot; are not set in D&amp;D and combat is abstract, so what 70 damage from a sword looks like is simply a matter of narration.&nbsp; We post fortune set the stakes based on observation of how much 70 damage is relative to the target.&nbsp; Maybe if you have 7 hit points then 70 damage from that Fire Giant's maul does make you go splatter, whereas if you had 100 hit points then maybe it makes a glancing blow as you sidestep the attack and stagger a half dozen paces with the wind knocked out of you, feeling your whole side bruised and barely keeping your feet.But falling messes this up because the stake is set before the fortune.&nbsp; You fell a certain number of feet as a concrete fact known before we roll damage.&nbsp; Unlike the giant's blow we aren't really rolling to see what happens, because we know what happened.&nbsp; And this sets expectations.&nbsp; We know what happened, so the expectation is the resolution step will describe what we'd expect a 70 foot fall to do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9363846, member: 4937"] The issue is in the typical D&D proposition->fortune->resolution cycle. Normally "stakes" are not set in D&D and combat is abstract, so what 70 damage from a sword looks like is simply a matter of narration. We post fortune set the stakes based on observation of how much 70 damage is relative to the target. Maybe if you have 7 hit points then 70 damage from that Fire Giant's maul does make you go splatter, whereas if you had 100 hit points then maybe it makes a glancing blow as you sidestep the attack and stagger a half dozen paces with the wind knocked out of you, feeling your whole side bruised and barely keeping your feet. But falling messes this up because the stake is set before the fortune. You fell a certain number of feet as a concrete fact known before we roll damage. Unlike the giant's blow we aren't really rolling to see what happens, because we know what happened. And this sets expectations. We know what happened, so the expectation is the resolution step will describe what we'd expect a 70 foot fall to do. [/QUOTE]

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