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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7470444" data-attributes="member: 29398">Make it that you want to roll low, and then use a progressively smaller die size for after each failed roll (or maybe have the first two or three on d20 then move to the decreasing dice) until you succeed, and at that point it resets to rolling a d20 next time.Which, if the PC knows the formidable enemy is coming, can in fact make in-game sense: "I've been savin' this one up for you, buddy!"  This would give the opposite effect: your stunts would go off way more often against the low-AC mooks than against the high-AC boss...which as a side effect would serve to increase the mechanical difference between a mook and a boss, if this matters.  Another side-effect would be to make defense a bit more important at cost of offense; the knock-on here is that well-defended PCs and opponents, being harder to hit, cause the battles to go on longer.Not saying this is a bad idea, just saying be careful with it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You know, a plan B just wandered into my mind here: how about on a natural 20 to hit the player/PC gets a choice: roll to confirm the crit OR use a martial power and forego the confirm roll.  All of this happens before damage is rolled.Lanefan</blockquote>