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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robertliguori" data-source="post: 3891674" data-attributes="member: 47776">Common sense would dictate this.  Common sense, however, is predicated on our experiences in this world.  D&D completely and utterly stops simulating this world at about level 6.For one thing, high-level or highly-optimized D&D avoid the situations in which massive numbers of rolls are necessary, for exactly that reason.  Once you will only fail a save on a '1', you have a situation where you have a .95^n chance of surviving n effects in a row.  If you're going to be experiencing a lot of n, you need to replace that high save with an immunity.  This isn't hard; there exists magic that can render you completely immune to poison and grappling pre-epic.Also, remember that the condition of the challenge don't involve the challengers necessarily surviving.  The champions of nation X don't just need to kill the challengers; they need to do so before the challengers can blow the world to hell.  This is a much more difficult proposition.</blockquote>