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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9702368" data-attributes="member: 7026617">While its not a complete case, that's not what I'm talking about.I'm talking about systems that allow you to avoid being hit.&nbsp; In RuneQuest you can Dodge, in the Hero System you have DCV that can be high.And a purple worm or a frost giant is not automatically a specially accurate attacker that can be assumed to avoid that; that's a D&amp;Dism because of how D&amp;D conflates armor and to-hit.&nbsp; The two games I mention and many others have armor interact with damage (or, rarely, a separate penetration roll) and defense either directly or indirectly interacts with attack capability, which is usually primarily based on skill and to the degree an attribute plays into it, its usually Dexterity.Dragons can be&nbsp; a bigger problem, and honestly, in a lot of such games the answer if you don't have special armor or the like, and the version of dragons you're dealing are assumed to be special armor, you either use special avoidance techniques or you are, at best, hurt badly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 9702368, member: 7026617"] While its not a complete case, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about systems that allow you to avoid being hit. In RuneQuest you can Dodge, in the Hero System you have DCV that can be high. And a purple worm or a frost giant is not automatically a specially accurate attacker that can be assumed to avoid that; that's a D&Dism because of how D&D conflates armor and to-hit. The two games I mention and many others have armor interact with damage (or, rarely, a separate penetration roll) and defense either directly or indirectly interacts with attack capability, which is usually primarily based on skill and to the degree an attribute plays into it, its usually Dexterity. Dragons can be a bigger problem, and honestly, in a lot of such games the answer if you don't have special armor or the like, and the version of dragons you're dealing are assumed to be special armor, you either use special avoidance techniques or you are, at best, hurt badly. [/QUOTE]

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