Misses and Rules

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Rules is an antonym for misses.

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Misses is an antonym for rules.

Tabletop RPGs, especially ones with build-your-own-attack rules, will sometimes allow for attacks that can try again on the next turn (and possibly the one after that, and so on) if the initial to-hit roll misses.

Source: Super-Persistent Missile
Many house-rules attempts to add detailed critical hits and misses to pre-3E Dungeons & Dragons resulted in tables of injuries that made characters' bodies seem roughly as fragile as their character sheets.

Source: Made of Plasticine
In 2nd edition there were semi-official optional rules for critical hits and misses published by Dragon magazine, where you would roll a percent and in general, the higher the number the more potent the effect.

Source: Critical Failure

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