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Auto-failure on a Nat 1/Auto-success on a Nat 20 - How Often Does This Come Up?
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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 3419051" data-attributes="member: 3424"><p>It looks like you and your players roll the d20 a lot more times per session than my group. <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=":)" /> Statisticially speaking, in order to get 5 natural 20s, you'd have to roll the d20 about 100 times per session.</p><p></p><p>However, there's the other aspect of the question: how would the game change if the characters couldn't automatically succeed on a natural 20, and wouldn't automatically fail on a natural 1? What if the orc archers had no chance of hitting your AC 20 dwarf at all? What if your PCs could automatically hit with certain attacks? How would this change the game?</p><p></p><p>Mouseferatu mentioned that it prevented the PCs from getting too cocky. Why is this a bad thing?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 3419051, member: 3424"] It looks like you and your players roll the d20 a lot more times per session than my group. :) Statisticially speaking, in order to get 5 natural 20s, you'd have to roll the d20 about 100 times per session. However, there's the other aspect of the question: how would the game change if the characters couldn't automatically succeed on a natural 20, and wouldn't automatically fail on a natural 1? What if the orc archers had no chance of hitting your AC 20 dwarf at all? What if your PCs could automatically hit with certain attacks? How would this change the game? Mouseferatu mentioned that it prevented the PCs from getting too cocky. Why is this a bad thing? [/QUOTE]
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