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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7891757" data-attributes="member: 18">I concur. Changes like this should always be made with careful reflection on the purpose. Easily the biggest problem with house rules and modifications is that, especially pre-2000, most are/were made without considering the actual goal, instead either being &quot;just because&quot; or reactionary in design (reactionary here meaning &quot;A thing I disliked happened so let's make a rule to prevent it!&quot; without considering how it fits into the greater scheme of things). I think if 5E used actual fumble rules beyond a 1 simply always missing, then that alone would go a long way towards justifying, say, 2d10 instead of 1d20, because such rules can easily turn a game into a farce. But it doesn't. Of course a lot of groups use very ill-considered &quot;just because&quot; type fumble rules, and I can certainly see that after adopting such, one might be tempted to switch to 2d10 or the like. I saw too many cases in 2E and 3E and other 90s and 00s games where people had whole chains of house rules that were there to compensate for the results of other house rules to think that's a good idea, though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7891757, member: 18"] I concur. Changes like this should always be made with careful reflection on the purpose. Easily the biggest problem with house rules and modifications is that, especially pre-2000, most are/were made without considering the actual goal, instead either being "just because" or reactionary in design (reactionary here meaning "A thing I disliked happened so let's make a rule to prevent it!" without considering how it fits into the greater scheme of things). I think if 5E used actual fumble rules beyond a 1 simply always missing, then that alone would go a long way towards justifying, say, 2d10 instead of 1d20, because such rules can easily turn a game into a farce. But it doesn't. Of course a lot of groups use very ill-considered "just because" type fumble rules, and I can certainly see that after adopting such, one might be tempted to switch to 2d10 or the like. I saw too many cases in 2E and 3E and other 90s and 00s games where people had whole chains of house rules that were there to compensate for the results of other house rules to think that's a good idea, though. [/QUOTE]

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