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I realized that while spells can be resisted, meaning they deal half of their intended damage, physical attacks can miss, hit or crit in various degrees.

I thought it would be interesting from a gameplay standpoint if there was a system for a reverse crit before your character actually outright misses, meaning your damage is penalized and reduced instead of increased.

Here's the Why:

Since you are striving to make MedievaLands better and better and want to differentiate the classes from each other to give them more defind roles, I figure low Strength characters (or those fighitng enemies with very high Defense) should still be able to deal some damage without missing outright. Not every swing of a weapon will strike as hard or quite make their mark.

I feel like this would help with character's stat building as well. I admit though it is probably mostly for flavor over efficiency, hehe.

If everyone's favorite Grobrak the Stoic had 54 Dexterity, let's say a glancing blow would look something like this:

Grobrak attacks Novice Thief and just barely hits for 27 damage.

Anyways, it's just a thought, haha.

Of course... monsters would be able to do glancing blows as well, right? This would make sure things are kept even.

This would be one of the easiest changes to make. And I really like it.

Oh, I can't believe I didn't add that little detail - you are completely right Zane, monsters should undoubtedly work this way too!

I'm glad you like it

I feel like this would help with character growth as well, as making a Defense-based character would be even more useful. Instead of hoping for outright misses, enemies' blows would be more likely to glance, causing less damage.

It's a good big step in the right direction to create a "tank"-type of character! Plus, imagine heavily armored ogres or the tough scales of dragons being more difficult to pierce...

Edited Mar 19, 2020