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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5371736" data-attributes="member: 58197">[MENTION=19265]Connorsrpg[/MENTION] - Sorry, I have Word 2003 and can't read .docx files. If you save it as a .doc, I'll be glad to have a look. (I play 4E, so I have to find another way to be grumpy and grognardy; my solution is to gripe about the new Word 2007 interface and refuse to upgrade on some kind of obscure principle.)Here's a suggestion to address the multiple attacks issue: Roll on the critical fumble table if the attacker gets a natural 1 on at least one attack roll and all of her other attack dice that round come up 10 or less. I just ran the numbers on this, and it results in a diminishing likelihood of fumbles as your number of attacks rises: 5% per round for one attack, 4.8% for two, 3.4% for three, 2.1% for four, 1.3% for five. (These calculations were made very hastily as I was getting ready for work, but they look about right.)This does require people to roll all their attacks at once, though, or apply crits retroactively.After that, I'd just make a crit fumble table in which 50% or more of the entries are minor, tactical fumbles--something like, "You miss badly and are thrown off balance. Lose your next move action." Throwing your weapon or hitting your ally would be a rare and nasty fumble.I wouldn't use this approach in 4E, since in 4E there isn't much correlation between level and number of attacks; it all depends on the attack power you're using, and you could easily be making four attacks in a round* at 1st level or one attack at 30th. For 4E, I'd just stick with "fumble on a natural 1" and then factor attacker level into the fumble table somehow.[size=-2]*Not every round, obviously, but there are a number of "sweep" attacks where you attack each enemy adjacent to you.[/size]</blockquote>

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