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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8323389" data-attributes="member: 71699">Perhaps. In PbtA the chance of a complication is >80%. Playtesting will give a better sense of where the ideal balance lies. My working hypothesis is that were 50% too high, PbtA with 80% would be less successful, and we'd see readily find complaints about it online.Partly because I haven't figured out a good way to engineer it in! Also, I prioritise serving up problems to my hapless adventurers over bennies. Bottom line though, I agree with you that there should be some result that delivers an enhanced success.I like that. For sure my players always look at me expectantly when one of them rolls a 1 or 20. Perhaps a 20 on an ability check should be a simple fail (in those cases that even a 20 fails for you!) or an enhanced success (when your 20 is also a success). There's no 1 auto-fail on 5e ability checks, but perhaps 1 should always come with a drawback, even if it succeeds?</blockquote>