D&D 3E/3.5 Natural 20 Question (3.5)

[Empirate]

Digressing further, since the OP has been satisfactorily answered:

An interesting house rule I've seen in use is that in opposed checks, a nat 20 adds 10 to your overall result, while a nat 1 reduces it by 10. That way, those "special" rolls keep being special, but you take away the "what if" problem stated by StreamOfTheSky.
What do you think of that?

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

I think the RAW works fine and doesn't need spicing up. Certainly a better houserule than just using critical success/failure on checks, though.

 

[Dandu]

Again, all grapple checks, for example, are opposed checks. And while I suppose it's possible to have them out of combat / initiative order, I've never once seen that happen, and even so it's still undeniably a much rarer occurance than in combat.

In bed.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

in bed.

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