Missed opportunity: “Standard Missile” is an actual weapon, deployed and in use today.
Considering the original meaning of “hit points” referring to how many shells a given ship could take before sinking, 12hp out of a basic spell is still pretty impressive.
…as a big simplification in naval war games, not as a real-life military rating for a ships durability under actual fire.
Technically that was “life”. It’s just that conceptually it was hitpoints.
In chainmail, the war game dnd is historically based on, a hit point is a fraction of a hit dice, each HD represents one soldier, roughly, so 12hp being the average of 4hd isn’t too bad, no.
That’s MAD
The most reliable counter to magic missile is the shield spell.
Or a large HP pool…
I prefer a Brother pool. Much less fuckery than with HP.
That’s what always bothers me about Harry Potter. Why haven’t wizards adopted guns?
A common explanation is that there’s easy ways to ward against guns. But now we’re just doing Rowling’s job for her. Honestly, probably better than letting her do it.
That missile hurt him more than it did the wizard.
