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[-] teft@startrek.website 29 points 1 year ago

then they added crit fails to skill checks

Do you know how many times that has pissed me off? Especially on my rogue where even a 1 would have opened the damn lock.

[-] inasaba@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

DC 10. You roll a natural 1, it modifies to 15. CRITICAL FAILURE

I feel like it's a bit ridiculous. A professional with expertise doing the worst they possibly can shouldn't be the same as any random untrained person doing the worst they can.

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's why I do crit fail confirms.

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, as DM I've always house ruled that it didn't make sense for a character to fail at the thing they're the best at.

Though I have been known to interpret a natural 1 as a crazy external force - like an earthquake - and have them reroll at -10.

Makes it even more fun when they succeed anyway.

[-] macmacfire@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve always house ruled that it didn’t make sense for a character to fail at the thing they’re the best at.

House Ruled? That's RAW. Crit Fails and successes only apply to attack rolls and death saves. And that's how it should be.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

Why are you rolling in those cases?

[-] TheMinions@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

BG3 is a video game, no DM to say “oh the rogue with a +17 doesn’t need to roll”

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago

It was not clear from context that it was a comment about checks in BG3. I read it as a reason why they hated similar checks at the table.

[-] TheMinions@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

No worries, we all fail perception checks every once in a while. Or spot checks, depending on edition/game.

[-] teft@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

I don't understand what you mean. The game rolls automatically for lockpicking. If you roll a 1 it fails even if say the DC is 10 and you have +9 from expertise and various gear.

[-] Omniraptor@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is taking 10/taking 20 not a thing in later editions?

Edit: apparently not explicitly though the dm handbook implies you should delete players auto succeed on tasks they can retry

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