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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5583135" data-attributes="member: 1210">I use homebrewed fumble charts. First: each player decides whether to enable fumbles for their character. If you don't enable fumbles, you don't fumble- but neither do monsters attacking you.If you have fumbles enabled, a natural 1 is a fumble, but that's a slight oversimplification. To avoid the whole "aargh, I fumble all the time because my spells target enough people that I roll to hit too much!" issue, when you make an attack that targets multiple targets, only the first attack roll is subject to fumbles.When you fumble, you roll 3d6 for severity. Lower is, er, less bad for you; really high fumble severity is bad news. An 18 is a disaster, but since an 18 severity fumble only happens 1 attack in 4320, that's okay.That said- we had one of Friday night, from a pc!18 severity crits are really, really bad. Each severity has a d% chart that determines the specifics of the fumble; an 18 includes things like heart attacks, strokes and spontaneous combustion (alas, only on a 00). The guy who fumbled rolled a stroke, but is playing a shardmind, so since he has no brain, I went to the next result on the chart and he critted himself. Ouch! That same encounter on Friday had probably a half dozen fumbles in it- way more than was statistically likely.</blockquote>