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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 5931413" data-attributes="member: 17106">What is a hit? What is a miss?Let's try this definition:A "hit" occurs when a character strikes an opponent with a weapon and inflicts meaningful physical harm. A "miss" is when a character attempts to do this, but it unsuccessful.In this paradigm, damage on a miss is nonsensical.Let's try this:A "hit" occurs when a character may or may not have physically struck his opponent with a weapon but somwhow caused that opponent to have a diminished fighting capacity. A "miss" is when a character attempts to do this, but it unsuccessful.In this paradigm damage on a miss is still nonsensical.***It should be clear that:*The first definition of hits and misses makes more sense and is more easily operationalized for a game.*Damage on a miss makes no sense in any remotely D&D-like paradigm.Of course, all those other things people said about damage on a miss being anticlimactic and unbalanced are true too.Let's nip this design mistake in the bud.XP is off, but that sounds like the voice of reason to me.</blockquote>