this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
408 points (97.7% liked)

RPGMemes

10314 readers
378 users here now

Humor, jokes, memes about TTRPGs

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
408
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Stamets to c/[email protected]
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] KittyCat 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is why my house rule is nat 20 or 1 gets a second roll to determine the degree of the crit. A 1 followed by another 1 is your true fall on your face odds.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Which, as said elsewhere, is still a 1-in-400 chance. A commercial pilot lands a plane thousands of times in his life. 1d20 with a 1d20 confirm would mean no pilot ever survived to retirement.

And one could argue a commercial pilot has a fairly average skill level, the equivalent of a level 0 character with a ~4 points of proficiency (D&D3 mindset, I know I'm old). Someone who is 5 or 6 times that should have no meaningful risk of crashing a plane (and the plane should have no meaningful risk of dangerously malfunctioning 0.25% of the time)