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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 5336646" data-attributes="member: 5143">I'm of the opinion that any time the DM has to change something, it is inherently biased by that DMs opinion.For instance, if you change the rule to allow failing automatically on a 1, you are doing so because an opinion of some sort.  Likely that you believe every act should have a chance of failure or that it's more realistic or something.Unfortunately, opinions aren't shared by everyone.  I'm in agreement with Hussar in that I think a 5% chance to fail in most things is way too large.  Especially when DMs up the ante and use a "natural 1 is always a critical failure" rule.  I'd be paranoid to ever jump over anything if I thought there was a 5% chance that I'd stumble and knock my nearby friend into the pit.I don't believe the game is helped out at all when I can fail extremely easy tasks.  It's rather frustrating for me to deal with it.  Some DMs feel it helps.  But I don't think changing the rules based on personal opinion is necessarily good DMing.  Basically, I feel that good DMing involves putting aside your own feelings and opinions and to avoid confusing players with a huge list of house rules which may or may not actually benefit the game.I actively encourage my players to quote the rules to me.  I want to know if I do something wrong.</blockquote>