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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4856343" data-attributes="member: 65637">As I said in the other thread, missing isn't boring all the time as some kind of divine mandate.  When you're up against this big bad monster, all your allies are unconcious, and it's about to swing at you...is this going to be a TPK...?...AND IT MISSES!  The whole group stands up and cheers.  Or the opposite.  You're all against a different big bad monster who does a LOT of damage to ALL of you, and is threatening nearby peasants.  YOu have to kill it, and you have to kill it fast.  Your fighter runs up, two handed sword a'swinging, ready to put the beast down with one big attack...AND HE MISSES!  Everyone at the table stands up and groans, with one or two paper wads being thrown at the dice.Natural ones can be just as - if not more - exciting then natural 20's.  Combat doesn't get boring because people miss, combat gets boring when you already know how it's going to end.  Games aren't memorable when everything is done on the average. You don't leave a table going "Hey, remember that time we slowly ground the enemy down and nothing exciting happened?"</blockquote>