Is this fair? -- your personal opinion

Is this fair? -- (your personal thought/feelings)

  • Yes

    Votes: 98 29.1%
  • No

    Votes: 188 55.8%
  • Other

    Votes: 51 15.1%

Natural 20's aren't auto successes in skills, nor are 1's a failure. That only applies to saves and attacks.

The point is, there's a trap here that no one can save against. If the monk fails on a 19, then no one else is going to make that save. That's an "aha gotcha" trap.
 

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More than fair. Ignorance isn't bliss. Although, in my case, evil ignorance can be bliss. I played an anti-paladin in the original Tomb of Horros adventure. Remember the face with the open mouth? This guy:

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Well, after my character felt around in it, and the DM describing the euphoria the character felt, he climbed right in. Can you guess what happened next? Yep, the character died. I had it coming.
 



Even so, open pits = death 98.9% of the time. I mean if you fall into a pit, it's generally a death involved in my book Fru.
 


Just for reference, I play PCs who would gladly jump into the sphere mouth cavalierly and brashly while winking to the other PCs. And then, the next character would do something crazy as well, and the next and the next. It's much much more fun than the alternative (ie boring) playing.

Hopefully the DM would wise up and start planning accordingly.

It works both ways.
 


Nightfall said:
Third,

There's boring living and then there's quick death. :p :)

I think I approach death in RPGs a bit differently than most people. My characters can die repeatedly, and I'll keep putting the same amount of effort into them regardless. I can also enjoy a random PC death, so repeatedly dying doesn't really bother me. I would rather not die, but I'm stubborn. I put a finger into a earth weird (MM II) once. I'm insane. If it sounds like fun or interesting (or someone dares me), I'll do it.
 

Yeah well I believe in the idea that when you die the gods say "Hey we're not letting you go unless you explain to us just WHY I should let you come back!" :p That kind of death thing is more fun.

Unless its Rappan Athuk. Then I fully expect deaths. :p :)
 

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