Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9452506" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I'm sure. That's even more of the same problem.  Fumble mechanics punish people for doing the thing they're supposed to be good at.Unless you include some sort of mitigation mechanic to factor in skill. <a href="https://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2012/07/critical-hits.html" target="_blank">Delta's old crit rules from 2012</a>, for example, include the victim getting a save vs. Petrification to negate the crit or fumble, which means higher level characters suffer from them less.  Which helps, but I'm still not sure the juice is worth the squeeze.  Whether the reward is worth the extra time and dice rolls.My current crit and fumble house rules for B/X are:I normally also just rule the enemy defeated if the 1 extra HP would do it.  No screwing the players by letting them choose wrong in that situation.That's a good question.  Still working on the best solution.  Fumbles with a skill-mitigation rule like Delta used are one option.Right, I'm saying this is a mindset I've gotten away from.  My players and I shouldn't be wasting precious table time slogging through a non-entertaining fight out of a misguided dedication to the 1% chance that it will turn out surprisingly and be fun.  That's getting priorities backwards. Better to adjust the mechanics to make such fights more enjoyable the other 99% of the time, or to skip them.Obviously your mileage may vary, and if your table is happy, more power to it!</blockquote>

Verification