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Message: <blockquote data-quote="T. Foster" data-source="post: 3737156" data-attributes="member: 16574">To resolve the anomaly of the repeated 20s vs. a net negative modifier, the DMG suggests adjusting the target's AC rather than the die roll (so the hobgoblins' net -3 to hit AC -4 would be effectively an attack against AC -7 -- if they can hit AC -7 on the table with a rolled 20 then they can hit). Another possibility might be to count any roll of natural 20 as 25 before subtracting the modifier (with the caveat that the total can't be above 20); so in this case if the hobgoblin with a net -3 modifier rolled a 20 it would count as (25-3=22 which becomes) 20 -- enough for a hit.Neither of these is particularly elegant, and I strongly suspect that not a lot of thought was given to how net negative modifiers interact with the repeated 20s on the table. Especially since we know that EGG didn't actually use the weapon vs. AC adjustments (which is where a lot of the negative adjustments come from) it's just probably not something that came up very often.</blockquote>