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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8122500" data-attributes="member: 6801845">When I'm caffeinated, and actually awake (not half asleep like this morning <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f634.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":sleep:" title="Sleep    :sleep:"  data-smilie="20"data-shortname=":sleep:" /> ) I get that my 45% was FUBAR.  After all if I flip a coin twice it's not a 100% chance to get heads.  There is a (very small) statistical chance that you could roll a D20 100 times and never roll a 1.I just dislike rolling a 1 (or a 20) having an outsized impact.  Which is kind of a problem I have with the current system, and the outsized impact it feels like it gives rogues.  Or is it just more spikes than overall cumulative damage?  I'm sure someone has already done the analysis somewhere. Maybe they could also tell me if it was really worth it for my first 5E rogue to take levels of fighter to get champion and crit on a 19 or 20.  Not that it would have mattered much, he multi-classed for other reason, but it was fun to <s>double </s>significantly increase the chance of getting a critical hit on my turn. Now for my paladin that can decide after the roll whether to smite or not ... hmm. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure    :unsure:"  data-smilie="24"data-shortname=":unsure:" />On a related note, I also used to ask people to confirm crits.  So if you rolled a 20, roll again to see if you do extra damage.  If you hit the target AC again, double your damage.  Confirm with a 20 and not only do you double damage, but you get to roll again.  Rinse and repeat.  In theory that 1 lucky blow could kill a dragon. Unlike [USER=6987520]@dnd4vr[/USER] though, it was just the idea that the blow hit a vulnerable spot.  I thought it was fun, but it confused the players so I ended up dropping it.But I think we've derailed this thread enough.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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