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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horwath" data-source="post: 8293815" data-attributes="member: 6801299">HPs and damage are an abstract in D&D and as [USER=63508]@Minigiant[/USER] stated, AC is one way to avoid damage.Guns do more damage than sword as guns ARE BETTER at killing people than swords, that is why we invest so much research in guns last 500 years and not so much in melee weapons.And as we want to have simple and uniform system in 5E for attacking and dealing damage, simplest way to describe that one weapon is more efficient at killing than another weapon is to have that weapon deal more base damage.Now, if you want to have a system that has 5 different damage effects vs 4 different types of armor, that is great and there are system out there for it. But 5E is not one of those.Best that we have here is 3 types of weapon damage; B/P/S and possible resistance/immunity to it.</blockquote>