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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8750745" data-attributes="member: 29398">I suspect the intent is that more rolls are to be allowed; or put another way, that the &quot;window&quot; between auto-fail and auto-succeed is to be widened so as to expand into what previously would have been auto-xxx territory.An analogy might be the 1e combat matrix, where rolling a 20 vs a 19 was far more significant than rolling a 19 vs an 18 but could still miss if the opponent's AC was good enough.&nbsp; I won't go into great detail but the to-hit needed went something like 18-19-20-20-20-20-20-20-21 with all those extra 20s being what I'm calling here the widened &quot;window&quot;.&nbsp; So, maybe instead of a 20 auto-succeeding have it that a 20 in effect knocks 5 (or whatever number) off the DC.The problem is, on the player side it's very easy to interpret a rule like this as &quot;the idea of auto-succeed and auto-fail no longer exists at all; the DM has to let us roll for anything, no matter how crazy, because the rules say a 20 always succeeds&quot;.&nbsp; Flip side, the DM can say &quot;now you always have to roll for trivialities as a 1 always fails&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8750745, member: 29398"] I suspect the intent is that more rolls are to be allowed; or put another way, that the "window" between auto-fail and auto-succeed is to be widened so as to expand into what previously would have been auto-xxx territory. An analogy might be the 1e combat matrix, where rolling a 20 vs a 19 was far more significant than rolling a 19 vs an 18 but could still miss if the opponent's AC was good enough. I won't go into great detail but the to-hit needed went something like 18-19-20-20-20-20-20-20-21 with all those extra 20s being what I'm calling here the widened "window". So, maybe instead of a 20 auto-succeeding have it that a 20 in effect knocks 5 (or whatever number) off the DC. The problem is, on the player side it's very easy to interpret a rule like this as "the idea of auto-succeed and auto-fail no longer exists at all; the DM has to let us roll for anything, no matter how crazy, because the rules say a 20 always succeeds". Flip side, the DM can say "now you always have to roll for trivialities as a 1 always fails". [/QUOTE]

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