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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PowerWordDumb" data-source="post: 1207789" data-attributes="member: 8614">Most humiliating fumble ever...This was in 2nd Edition, shortly after the releases of the Combat & Tactics and High Level Adventures books in the Player's Option line.  My character - the heavily-muscled, completely min/maxed fighter who had spent all his weapon proficiencies on gaining high mastery in two-weapon style dual-battleaxe combat.  I liked to think of him as 'The Cuisinart'.Anyway, in a meaningless encounter with a couple of 1st or 2nd-level city guards who've had the bad luck to stumble upon our latest nefarious deeds, I decide that rather than simply launching into combat for the usual first-round total enemy death, that I'll have some fun with it.  Remembering a bit in the books about performing a "Show of Mastery" by which I do a Conan-like weapon flourish to scare my enemies senseless before I dispatch them, I tell the DM my intentions and roll my dice.  With my heavily-minmaxed combat skills, anything over a five on d20's would be success that would awe and terrify the useless guardsmen.Roll.....  Dual 1's!!!  Not only did I completely screw up the show of mastery, but I fumbled.  Roll on the fumble tables in use at the time, and we find out that I've critically fumbled.  Move to the critical fumbles table, and roll again...  My weapon-master fighter proceeds to chop both his legs off as part of his display of arrogance.Lots of "I'm not dead yet, come back here and I'll bite you!" references later and some extended bouts of healing, my fighter learned his lesson and never again showed off when he could be efficiently killing.  Years and many characters later and I still get ribbed over that one.</blockquote>

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