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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9618777" data-attributes="member: 29398">Every 30 seconds?Oh yes, of course, you're thinking of 5e's very short rounds.And I do see it as the warrior is taking more swings in the same amount of time, as in the weapon is literally moving faster due to repeated practice and familiarity.That said, 30 seconds in 5e is what, 5 combat rounds?  If you're using fumble on nat. 1 and the fighter's getting 4 attacks a round then sure, on average you'll see a fumble every 30 seconds.  However, 1-in-20 is far too frequent for both fumbles and criticals; there needs to be a confirm roll of some sort to reduce the frequency and thus make both into more stand-out occurrences.I just ran a session that had one fumble in it: someone trying to shoot a bow while being carried in flight by someone else managed to nick himself for one whole point of damage.  The same archer had the previous round rolled a critical hit in the same situation (which is why he tried again despite warnings that what he was doing carried a higher-than-usual risk of fumbling); the odds of getting a crit one round and a fumble the next in our system are mighty low (in this particular case they were 1-in-1608 if my arithmetic is right), but he did it.</blockquote>