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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3974295" data-attributes="member: 4937">D&D combat tends toward the repeatitive unless you have a DM that really works to keep it otherwise.  Much like critical hits, critical fumbles make for good stories.  They cause unexpected things to occur in the middle of what might otherwise be simple arithmatic.  Suddenly, your fighter drops his sword and slings 10' over into another square.  The team is now presented with an interesting problem it needs to solve, which might turn another dull fight against an ogre into something interesting.Critical fumbles IMO are a more interesting mechanic than critical hits.  If I had to get rid of one or the other, I'd get rid of critical hits.  As a player and DM, I find critical hits produce far more random PC deaths than fumbles do (although, there was that time with the oil of slipperyness and the vorpal sword...), and I really dislike that.  And again, as a player and a DM, I find that critical fumbles produce more interesting situations (dropped weapon, players falling down, etc.) than merely multiplying the damage dice every once and a while.The bad thing of course is that they do make setting the challenge level harder.  Your worthy villain can stumble and fall over comicly after his monologue.  Your PCs can get in a fight that should be easy, then suddenly fall over, stun themselves, and send there magic weapon skittering over the cliff.  I personally try to make the most of it.  What kind of action adventure movie is it, if the hero (or villain?) is never placed in comicly dangerous situations?</blockquote>

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