It does increase how long a lower-level character or lower-CR monster will last against a character of a given level.
BA is not about reducing the power of character level.
It incidentally has implications for how damage winds up being delivered, because the same modifiers apply, and because it alters the hit frequency for attacks. Because saves are just a keyworded check variant in 5e, they are affected in exactly the same way.
BA has nothing to do with saves of any sort.
The limits imposed upon ability modifiers thanks to BA alters the standard DC range, but this is an unintended side-effect.
BA has nothing to do with checks of any sort.
There are a lot of misconceptions about BA, so let's just squash them all, right here and now. This is a big departure from the typically secretive or silent R&D department for past editions. It is unique in D&D history, in that it is one of the few times the developer was publicly vocal about their development standards, going so far as to even give it a name, and expressing this idea through official statements.
3 What Does Bounded Accuracy Mean For Me?īounded accuracy is a fundamental design philosophy underlying the mathematics used in the core rules for attack roll hit probability.
2.2 Positive AC: Rise & Crash (3.5e-4e).
2.1 Before AC: To-Hit Charts & Thac0 (Original-2.5e).