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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zadam" data-source="post: 2259902" data-attributes="member: 30468">I tend to view combat as a bit more abstract than that. I don't see someone with one "attack" in D&D as meaning that person literally only swung their sword or dagger one time. I take it to mean that during the round the person may have made one, or several "swings" to try and hit their enemy during that round (probably several using a dagger, but only one or 2 with a greatsword). To roll a miss simply means all their combat moves and swings resulted in misses or glancing blows which failed to do any substantial damage. To roll a hit but then rolling a low damage could mean they only got one medium strength blow in, or 2 light blows etc. Rolling for high damage could mean they actually hit a couple of times, or once for a devastatingly powerful blow.  If you keep it abstract like that, then its very likely that during a round someone fighting with a dagger might in fact make several lunges and slashes with the dagger wheras the greatsword fighter might only swing once or twice. But doing significant damage with a dagger is harder, so hence a few cuts and prods from a dagger equates less damage than one powerful hit from a heavy greatsword, and hence this is represented already by the damage roll.</blockquote>