Would a player ask if 18 hits when that is just the roll? I’m kinda unfamiliar with TTRPGs but I assumed the player usually kept track of and applied their modifiers, or is the DM tasked with that?
Yes, assuming we’re talking about DND, the player is asking if his total attack roll with modifiers is equal to or greater than the enemies armor class, which only the DM knows. If so, the attack hits. If not, it misses. An AC of 19 or more is pretty high for low level player characters.
My confusion was that the meme said rolls an 18 and the title said 18 doesn’t hit, which makes it sound like in one instance its referring to the roll and in the other the roll with modifiers, but I’m unfamiliar with the parlance.
Yeah, generally we already add the modifiers to the roll even when we speak it, so if we say “I rolled 18” it could mean “18 + 0”, “16 + 2”, “19 - 1” etc.
In games like D&D and Pathfinder, it’s pretty much never important what’s on the die without modifiers.
If we do refer to what the die itself shows, we often say “natural” or “nat” in front of it; “That’s a nat 18, so I rolled 20 total”, for example.
