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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 879261" data-attributes="member: 93">I thought I'd toss this house rule that I use in my campaign.  I've always felt if you have criticals, you should have fumbles, too.  However, it's important not to overdo it.So, here's what I use.If you roll a natural 1, you have to make a fumble check.  The Fumble Check is an attack roll (at the PC's current attack bonus) vs. DC 15.  A natural 1 on the Fumble Check is always a Fumble.This has seemed to work very well over the course of a couple of years of use.  Doesn't happen too often, but happens often enough to make it interesting.We've played it to this point that a failed fumble check results in a dropped weapon in a square adjacent to the PC's square.  I'm toying with the idea of adding a couple other possibilities, such as adding a third step (this part is untested):On a failed fumble check, roll d6.1-3: Drop Weapon4: Provoke an AoO.5: Roll damage against yourself (weapon dmg only/2) - I figure it's tough to get your full strength bonus against yourself...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />6: Roll damage against your own weapon, using your full weapon damage plus modifiers, as if making a sunder attempt.Thoughts?</blockquote>