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<blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 450761" data-attributes="member: 6521">We've been using the 20=30, 1=-10 rule for a while in our games, and it's worked fine. On the rare occasion you find something you can't hit with a natural 20, you suddenly get a much greater sense for the scale of things in-game.Plus, for DC 5 ride checks and things, it's nice to just not have to roll.Thinking of adopting the whole &quot;reroll and add on a 20&quot; thing to my next game... Although to balance it out, I'd make a 1 a -20 and have you reroll to add (continuing to reroll on 1's and 20s). Otherwise, three 1's in a row is only -1, whereas three twenties in a row is then 60. Big difference. (Although, this brings up some &quot;aww, crap&quot; moments where your natural 20 gets cancelled out by a natural 1, and you're left with just a plain old normal roll. But aside from those, it seems to be okay.)This means that chance always factors in (no matter what your bonus), and your bonus always factors in (no matter what your luck.) Which seems good to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guilt Puppy, post: 450761, member: 6521"] We've been using the 20=30, 1=-10 rule for a while in our games, and it's worked fine. On the rare occasion you find something you can't hit with a natural 20, you suddenly get a much greater sense for the scale of things in-game. Plus, for DC 5 ride checks and things, it's nice to just not have to roll. Thinking of adopting the whole "reroll and add on a 20" thing to my next game... Although to balance it out, I'd make a 1 a -20 and have you reroll to add (continuing to reroll on 1's and 20s). Otherwise, three 1's in a row is only -1, whereas three twenties in a row is then 60. Big difference. (Although, this brings up some "aww, crap" moments where your natural 20 gets cancelled out by a natural 1, and you're left with just a plain old normal roll. But aside from those, it seems to be okay.) This means that chance always factors in (no matter what your bonus), and your bonus always factors in (no matter what your luck.) Which seems good to me. [/QUOTE]

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