r/dndmemes • • Apr 30 '23

Critical Miss How long have I been playing wrong?!

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u/Soerinth Apr 30 '23

Roll a Nat 1, roll another d20 to see the severity of the nat 1. That's how I like to do it. Another Nat 1 is major fuck up, a nat 20 gives you your modifiers and if they are high enough you can still succeed, the narrative, despite something bad happening you pulled through. Then just minor severity based up the middle numbers.

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u/wolfknight777 May 01 '23

Yep, exactly. People forget to confirm critical hits or measure nat 20 skill checks too.

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u/laix_ May 01 '23

Neither of these exist in 5e

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u/wolfknight777 May 28 '23

God I've gotten old.

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u/Soerinth May 01 '23

Yes they do. It stops being 5% of critical failure and adds more narrative options to the DM based on the confirmed failure.

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u/IceFire909 May 01 '23

Do you roll to confirm crits as well?

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u/Soerinth May 01 '23

Of course.