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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6008488" data-attributes="member: 42582">Ah, I misread that - so it's the same a Glancing Blow, then, except for the fixed damage.Still, that doesn't seem very mysterious to me - the modelling might be a bit rough-and-ready (eg it's not as nuanced as your touch-AC variant), but it hardly reeks of &quot;it must be magic!&quot;I haven't worked out yet how a &quot;dissociated&quot; mechanic differs from a metagame mechanic that someone dislikes!Except now all these things which are pretty obviously not metagame, but simply rough-and-ready process simulations- the minotaur's armour piercing, the gnoll's pack savagery, the hobgoblin's discipline - are being called out as dissociated!It's weird. But you're right that dissociation is confined to the non-magical, and - once imperfect process simulations start to get labelled as dissociated - almost impossible for the non-magical to avoid!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6008488, member: 42582"] Ah, I misread that - so it's the same a Glancing Blow, then, except for the fixed damage. Still, that doesn't seem very mysterious to me - the modelling might be a bit rough-and-ready (eg it's not as nuanced as your touch-AC variant), but it hardly reeks of "it must be magic!" I haven't worked out yet how a "dissociated" mechanic differs from a metagame mechanic that someone dislikes! Except now all these things which are pretty obviously not metagame, but simply rough-and-ready process simulations- the minotaur's armour piercing, the gnoll's pack savagery, the hobgoblin's discipline - are being called out as dissociated! It's weird. But you're right that dissociation is confined to the non-magical, and - once imperfect process simulations start to get labelled as dissociated - almost impossible for the non-magical to avoid! [/QUOTE]

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