Post #1281812
2026-04-06 15:54 UTC
@sinbad On the other hand, is a miss really "nothing?" If you moved, that movement happened without a roll and you're still in that position no matter what the dice say. This might result in pulling aggro/attacks your way that might have gone elsewhere, for good or ill.
The failed attack might also reveal some information. Did you get a decent roll, but not hit the AC? Is there a way you can get a bigger bonus or inflict a penalty for next time? Did you do damage it's resistant or immune to?
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@fdouglaswall@dice.camp 2026-04-06 16:08
@sinbad Also, the way D&D slices up time into rounds and such, the notion that you didn't make progress within *this specific time slice* even though you have made progress in other time slices is not that big of a deal. In FitD, the time slices are more abstract. A single roll likely represents the entire fight over several minutes. To have the outcome of the *entire fight* be *nothing* is, I agree, unreasonable.