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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 7787041" data-attributes="member: 82504">And to me it sounds like you are not talking about the same "matters" at all (what was i willing to sacrifice to save the village and similar things) which is beyond the scope of how your character responds to given individual threat actually mattering with regards to the quality of that defense (choices mattering tactically yes altering the outcome in a numeric fashion is distinct from what you are talking about ). They use the same word "mattering" but arent the same. And you seem to insist one obviates the desire or need for the other not seeing how they could. Note how attacks are often allowed those kinds of impact both of quality and resource expense, but defenses are not in D&D land. I can choose an attack that has a less likely success but a bigger payload for instance or one which has a strategic cost.One could see stylistic mattering as "expressing your character". For instance at the failure level its like describing hit point style (why didnt that knife just outright kill my character).  My halfling combatant describes the intervention of happen chance, Skillful combatant describes a progression of fatigue occasionally punctuated by something else,  if that skill is a spell caster it might be describing his personal shielding weakening failing, Tough guy combatant describes actual ability to take lots of real wounds.  (theoretically could all have the same number of hit points). PAR can enable the above if the player describes their failures.D&D combat whether we describe it that way or not is to an extent implemented as a hit point race. 5e monsters do seem to encourage seeing it that way.  Sometimes it isn't with afflictions and temporary impairments character movement and resource expenditures may allow it not to be entirely so.</blockquote>

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