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<blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 241412" data-attributes="member: 537">A glancing blow can be a hit that deals damage. It can also be truly a glancing blow that doesn't do anything.D&amp;D's entire _combat system_ is abstract, and that includes armour adding to your AC. If full plate's AC +8 meant that everyone genuinely missed you, it would be like some sort of mystical force field that prevented blows from physically connecting. This is clearly absurd. AC incorporates an element of physical deflection, so that attacks bounce off your armour or are absorbed by its thickness or hardness. Now you could argue that the best way to represent this is via DR, but we've had that argument six million times + 1 already. For now, armour adds to your AC instead of DR, and we're stuck with it.Therefore, I don't have any real problem with attacks that fail to deal damage still managing to touch the target. This seems a lot more reasonable than what's in the PHB or the FAQ, and doesn't need so much handwaving to justify it (or at least any more handwaving than the combat system as a whole needs).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hong, post: 241412, member: 537"] A glancing blow can be a hit that deals damage. It can also be truly a glancing blow that doesn't do anything. D&D's entire _combat system_ is abstract, and that includes armour adding to your AC. If full plate's AC +8 meant that everyone genuinely missed you, it would be like some sort of mystical force field that prevented blows from physically connecting. This is clearly absurd. AC incorporates an element of physical deflection, so that attacks bounce off your armour or are absorbed by its thickness or hardness. Now you could argue that the best way to represent this is via DR, but we've had that argument six million times + 1 already. For now, armour adds to your AC instead of DR, and we're stuck with it. Therefore, I don't have any real problem with attacks that fail to deal damage still managing to touch the target. This seems a lot more reasonable than what's in the PHB or the FAQ, and doesn't need so much handwaving to justify it (or at least any more handwaving than the combat system as a whole needs). [/QUOTE]

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