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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LurkMonkey" data-source="post: 5287588" data-attributes="member: 68949">Waaaaaay back in the (1e) days, I was running a 1 on 1 game for a friend of mine. There were a bunch of NPCs travelling with him to make a well-rounded dungeon delving party. One of which was a stock Dwarf fighter. Now, I don't know why, but that little runt of an NPC was jinxed. I would roll his attacks, and more often than not, he'd roll a 1. At the time I used houserule crit/fumble tables from Dragon, and that dwarf's hammer killed more of the party than the monsters ever did. Fortunately, I had also houseruled the old 'unconcious and fading until -10 hp' rule as well, or that party's career would have been very shortlived! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> It got to the point that my friend asked me to have the NPC walk in front instead of the thief, because he didn't want to get accidentally flattened by this clumsy dwarf's hammer again.  So then the dwarf begins to attract crits instead of causing fumbles. Arrows, knives, even a ballista bolt one time would invariably score a 20 against him. And the concept of crit confirm hadn't been invented yet, so the 20 was a crit, and that was final. That Dragon crit table could be pretty vicious too. I think after the ballista bolt pinned him to the dungeon wall, my friend turned to me and said, "I think we're just gonna leave him up there." <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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