Comments on: Beyond “You Hit”: Describing Damage http://www.d20source.com/2009/07/beyond-you-hit-describing-damage A blog for all fans of Dungeons & Dragons. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:00:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: botchiball http://www.d20source.com/2009/07/beyond-you-hit-describing-damage/comment-page-1#comment-85452 botchiball Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:12:45 +0000 http://www.d20source.com/?p=1104#comment-85452 Woah, been looking for something like this. So simple anyone can get it, but yet can easily add tons of depth. Thanks : ). Woah, been looking for something like this. So simple anyone can get it, but yet can easily add tons of depth. Thanks : ).

]]> By: Noumenon http://www.d20source.com/2009/07/beyond-you-hit-describing-damage/comment-page-1#comment-71890 Noumenon Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:53:12 +0000 http://www.d20source.com/?p=1104#comment-71890 Awesome idea and well fleshed out with all the examples! I used to try to say "If you missed by 2 and he has +3 Dex, say he dodged, if you missed by 4, say he took it on the armor." That was too much work. With this I can decide "This is a CON monster" and describe all his hits the same way. Also it's a good idea to do what you did and focus on describing the hits. Describing the misses only makes the monster look good, describing the <i>near</i>-misses makes the player look awesome. Awesome idea and well fleshed out with all the examples! I used to try to say “If you missed by 2 and he has +3 Dex, say he dodged, if you missed by 4, say he took it on the armor.” That was too much work. With this I can decide “This is a CON monster” and describe all his hits the same way.

Also it’s a good idea to do what you did and focus on describing the hits. Describing the misses only makes the monster look good, describing the near-misses makes the player look awesome.

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