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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Libramarian" data-source="post: 5850919" data-attributes="member: 6688858">I'm thinking in terms of hand to hand fighting. Maybe you're right about fighting with deadly weapons, I'm not sure. But with regard to boxing or MMA, it's experienced fighters that occasionally get a 3 second knockout, not people who don't know how to fight. People who don't know how to fight just kinda flail around, not seriously injuring each other. Skilled fighters don't just wildly miss, or hit a part of the body in a way that does no damage, their blows have to be parried. So the question is whether a parry is more of a miss in D&D terms, or a hit with a smallish amount of HP loss--I think the latter. So I like attack bonus rising faster than AC, and HP rising faster than damage.But I recognize that talking about which is more realistic at the level of resolution of D&D combat is pretty subjective. It's my secondary reason that I like moderate hit chance scaling.The primary reason I like it scaling is simply because it's more interesting and satisfying to start below the putative "sweet spot" of hit chance, and then work up to it, and a little beyond it.I disagree that taking the "sweet spot" and applying it to all levels is objectively intelligent fun optimization. The funness (tm) of something is not static, it is enhanced by working up to it.</blockquote>