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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laurefindel" data-source="post: 8136002" data-attributes="member: 67296">Voted that other stuff is happening.It tends toward a blow-by-blow type of action if you try to narrate or imagine what’s going on as the round goes, but if you take a step back and look at the action after the fact, a more fluid, more theatrical interpretation is easier to make.I like to see attack rolls as opportunities to strike a blow. During a combat round where two combattants missed all their attacks, you can narrate a furious storm of blow, dodge, and parry. Or perhaps the two combattants simply turned in circles, gauging their enemy, looking for an opportunity to strike. Cue in tumbleweed flying in between. Different characters and enemies can change this narrative.similarly, abstract hp suggests that successful « hits » may have been parried, dodged in extremis, absorbed by armour, or avoided by luck. Character lost some of its edge (hp) but could be left narratively unscathed. This is easier to see with a distance from the blow-by-blow approach.« Other stuff is happening » is also easier to reconcile with action-movie combat. A single successful attack may involve kicking a can at the enemy, distracting it enough to destabilize it with a shield blow, creating an opening for the sword cut. Minimum damage was rolled? Maybe it was just the can that « hit ».i like cinematic action, and it is much easier to achieve with the assumption that a lot happens in a 6-second round beyond that single attack roll, and that these action-surged 8 attacks where not necessarily all individual sword blows. You don’t have to go back far. Let the player roll its turn, then narrate (or let the player narrate). Like everything else, balance is the key: not everything needs to be narrated, or else it becomes unnecessarily heavy.</blockquote>

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