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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5753896" data-attributes="member: 58197">I think the issue is that a natural 1 is not just a failure but a critical failure--a disastrous, life-threatening, abysmal botch. See the examples given, of PCs routinely hitting themselves and each other. Hence the comment that somebody's going to get a natural 1 on a Breathe check and die.Critical fumbles on a natural 1 make for an absolutely ridiculous rate of cataclysmic failure, far beyond what happens in real life. Imagine if you had to make a Drive check every time you went to work, with an accident on a natural 1. You would crash your car every two weeks! And that's assuming you only drive to work and back, Monday through Friday--no trips to the grocery store, to visit friends, you walk to lunch or eat in the office, stay at home on weekends.Then try to imagine, say, the Cold War playing out under such a regime. We'd have had nuclear apocalypse ten times over before we ever got out of the fifties.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5753896, member: 58197"] I think the issue is that a natural 1 is not just a failure but a [I]critical[/I] failure--a disastrous, life-threatening, abysmal botch. See the examples given, of PCs routinely hitting themselves and each other. Hence the comment that somebody's going to get a natural 1 on a Breathe check and die. Critical fumbles on a natural 1 make for an absolutely ridiculous rate of cataclysmic failure, far beyond what happens in real life. Imagine if you had to make a Drive check every time you went to work, with an accident on a natural 1. You would crash your car every two weeks! And that's assuming you only drive to work and back, Monday through Friday--no trips to the grocery store, to visit friends, you walk to lunch or eat in the office, stay at home on weekends. Then try to imagine, say, the Cold War playing out under such a regime. We'd have had nuclear apocalypse ten times over before we ever got out of the fifties. [/QUOTE]

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