It's a fantasy role-playing game.

DM: You are Tiberius Stormwind, a dragonborn sorcerer . You are the member of the famous group of adventurers. Previously, There, they find a cave filled with magical darkness. Keyleth shifts into an earth elemental to scout the cave, finding that it contains a strange planar rift and a group of grick.
DM: All right. It's going to make a bite attack against Tiberius and a tail attack against Scanlan. So it's the two that are immediately visible to it. So the bite attack against you, Tiberius. That's going to be a 21.
Player: Yeah, that hits.
DM: The bite attack against you is going to be a 23. (all laugh) The tail (whapsh) whips around as you're on top of the carpet, about to try to get everyone out of there. You turn around and see this thing go piercing by. It strikes across your chest. Your armor takes most of the damage, but you can feel the bruise underneath. It doesn't actually pierce the skin, but you take seven points of damage from the impact of the tail. Tiberius!
Player: Yes?
DM: All right, it comes out and sinks its teeth into your form, across your shoulder area, and it bites down. You end up taking--
Player: You're ruining my robe! (grunts)
DM: Ten points of piercing damage.
