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<blockquote data-quote="Al'Kelhar" data-source="post: 1225715" data-attributes="member: 7884">It must be an Australian thingy, cos' the more I read hong, the more I realise I think like him.&nbsp; Except maybe the bit about Large Metallic Genitalia.I'll put this in simple terms for the North Americans out there&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> D&amp;D is fantasy.&nbsp; Everything about D&amp;D combat, from AC to hit points to weapon damage, to the effects of instantaneous fire damage, is an abstraction.&nbsp; If you want realism in combat, play another game.AC is an abstraction of HOW HARD IT IS TO INJURE A CREATURE, not how hard it is to hit the creature.&nbsp; If you think I'm wrong, why are you messing around with armour bonus from armour, and not every other form of armour bonus which isn't counted in touch AC?&nbsp; Try explaining natural armour in terms of DR.&nbsp; Exactly how much fun is it when your DM says &quot;I'm sorry, that Colossal dragon has DR 44/-, so you warrior-types may as well just turn around and moon it in the hopes of distracting it from eviscerating your spellcasters&quot;?&nbsp; Here endeth the rant.Cheers, Al'Kelhar</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Al'Kelhar, post: 1225715, member: 7884"] It must be an Australian thingy, cos' the more I read [B]hong[/B], the more I realise I think like him. Except maybe the bit about Large Metallic Genitalia. I'll put this in simple terms for the North Americans out there ;) [B][I]D&D is fantasy. Everything about D&D combat, from AC to hit points to weapon damage, to the effects of instantaneous fire damage, is an abstraction. If you want realism in combat, play another game. AC is an abstraction of HOW HARD IT IS TO INJURE A CREATURE, not how hard it is to hit the creature. If you think I'm wrong, why are you messing around with armour bonus from armour, and not every other form of armour bonus which isn't counted in touch AC? Try explaining natural armour in terms of DR. Exactly how much fun is it when your DM says "I'm sorry, that Colossal dragon has DR 44/-, so you warrior-types may as well just turn around and moon it in the hopes of distracting it from eviscerating your spellcasters"?[/I][/B][I][/I] Here endeth the rant. Cheers, Al'Kelhar [/QUOTE]

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