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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7794966" data-attributes="member: 23751">Nope!  The risk is not worth the reward.  I'd go the other way, though.  On a 1 I lose my $100, and on a 2 I win/lose nothing, and on a 3-4 I win $100.  That's significant risk, but enough chance of reward to make it worthwhile.A few things.  First, no damage IS a hell of a lot of reward.  Especially since once a DM allows that, the player is going to use it for every attack.  It would be stupid to not have some sort of increased risk associated with it as a mitigation for the very powerful extra ability to just outright negate damage.Second, I never said anything about double damage.  I said increased damage. Third, it doesn't have to be damage.  The risk could be falling prone in front of the monster and being unable to get up until your next turn. There does need to be some sort of increased risk, though, or else I'm just going to tell you no.  I don't allow abusive abilities like that where you can just negate or minimize damage for a free roll with no downside.  As I said, it then becomes something rolled by every player(since they all have athletics) on the chance that they hit the DC and take no damage.But not as bad as your suggestion of a free roll on every attack to avoid damage.  At least with double damage(something I didn't say), if you're going to be going down to 0, it's worth the shot to stay up.</blockquote>