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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8124041" data-attributes="member: 6779196">The OP is getting answers to the question they asked in the title - “how fantastic are natural 1s?” Answers range from “pretty fantastic” to “not fantastic at all because they don’t have any mechanical effect” to “oh, god, they’re terrible, please don’t make your players deal with them.” And then inevitably you end up with arguments about those opinions.If the title had been something like “share your fun stories that have happened as a result of unlucky rolls,” I expect you’d have a lot fewer people arguing about the merits and follies of critical fumble rules and a lot more people sharing amusing stories about untimely low rolls.The title of a thread tends to have a much greater impact on the direction a conversation goes than the content of its opening post. A lot of people skim, or don’t even read the first post, especially when there’s a question in the thread title - they just give their answer. And even those who do read the opening post thoroughly probably only do so once. The rest of the time they’re responding to other posts in the thread. Meanwhile, the title of the thread is always there at the top of the page, setting the tone and tenor of the discussion. If you want a specific sort of discussion in a thread, it is vitally important to give the thread a title that directly relates to that discussion topic. Witty or clickbaity titles mostly lead to tangents.</blockquote>

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