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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6210407" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't get this. Nothing about the current fighter ability bypasses DR.I don't get this either. Ace in the Hole is not conditional. The player, having rolled a miss, gets to declare it as a hit.I don't really understand what difference being 20th level makes, except perhaps that it will turn up much less in actual play. I also don't see how limited use helps. It just gives rise to the issue of "martial dailies". (In a sense, of course, the great weapon ability is limited use too: the player can only use it when an attack is rolled, and the rolling of attacks is rationed via the game's action economy.)I can't see any difference, for the reason that I'll now explain."If your attack misses, you can turn it into a hit" = even though I missed, I get to roll my damage dice and inflict that damage on the target. "When you miss a target with a melee weapon, the target still takes damage" = even though I missed, I get to infict damage on the target (though less damage than if I got to roll my damage dice).The implication of what you say, and of your seeing of a difference, seems to be that if the great weapon ability read "When you miss a target with a two-handed melee weapon, you can turn that attack into a weak hit that deals damage equal to your STR modifier" then it would be less offensive too you. If that's the case, then by all means let's have WotC rewrite it like that! Cause I don't care - as I've said I can't see any difference.</blockquote>

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