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[nedjer]

Don't know if this has ever come up before but, in the spirit of adding fun elements to play, how about having 19 and 20 as bonuses on a d20 roll. Not the same, but an 'enhanced' 19 standard bonus and then the full impact for a 20?

 

[jonesy]

So, would 2 be a partial fumble?

"You succeed to not fail so barely that everyone gives you a funny look."

Edit: ugh. I think I rolled a 2.

 

[Diamond Cross]

In 1e and 2e we house ruled that that a 20 was an automatic success and rolled on the original critical hits and fumbles tables in the old Dragon magazine, and a 19 was a fifty percent chance to hit.

In 3.5e, some weapons scored a possible crit on a 20, others on a 19 - 20. If you had a keened weapon that increased the chance and with the right enchantments you can further increase the chance to score a critical hit all the way fown to 15 - 20.

So it's not really a new idea.

But one I still like.

Random dice rolls can be quite interesting at times because luck can go really good or really bad.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

How about a 19 functions as a 20, and a 20 is a 20 but roll the d20 again and add the result to 20 (exploding 20).

 

[Jhaelen]

"You succeed to not fail so barely that everyone gives you a funny look."

This is similar to how you can learn to fly:

Fall down but fail to hit the ground.

 

[nedjer]

So, would 2 be a partial fumble?

"You succeed to not fail so barely that everyone gives you a funny look."

Edit: ugh. I think I rolled a 2.

I'll skip on glass half-empty fumbles. Strictly making players happier more often

 

[jonesy]

glass half-empty fumble

That sounds like a magic trick. Something with juggling and Teller dying at the end. Again.

 

[nedjer]

That sounds like a magic trick. Something with juggling and Teller dying at the end. Again.

Glass half-empty fumbles - round here the term doubles for jabbing someone irritating in the eye and swearing you didn't mean it.

 

[jonesy]

Glass half-empty fumbles - round here the term doubles for jabbing someone irritating in the eye and swearing you didn't mean it.

And that was happening often enough to warrant its own term, huh?

 

[nedjer]

And that was happening often enough to warrant its own term, huh?

In large parts of Glasgow if you don't like someone it's customary to break a beer glass in their face. Jabbing a thumb in their eye is more like male bonding. Though quite a lot of the guys share out the punches, jabs and glassings to their wives and girlfriends