It's not an attack or a save, so no.Question said:If one rolls a 1 on a grapple check isnt it an auto failure like the rest?
That's not a 1/10 chance, but rather a 39/400 chance.Otherwise you can end up with the exceedingly ridiculous situation of a pixie trying to trip a storm giant and having a 10% chance of success (1/20 chance of a natural 20 for the pixie, 1/20 chance of a natural 1 for the giant)
Some things should just be impossible.
myradale said:Some things should just be impossible.
starwed said:That's not a 1/10 chance, but rather a 39/400 chance.
Besides, it's no more ridiculous than the commoner hitting someone with 50 AC, and yet that can happen as well. (And many people house rule the auto fail/succeed for skills and other circumstances.)