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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6154842" data-attributes="member: 5143">I'd like more predictability in my games than that.  Both as a player and as the DM.  Running a game where one of the PCs action has an 85% chance of doing nothing or a 15% chance of ending an encounter outright is....unsatisfying for me from both sides of the screen.  It's just TOO random and ends up with epic encounters ending in one spell.On the other hand, I don't have much of a problem with any one individual spell or ability having about a 5% chance of killing the enemy.  Most crits are going to have this effect.  Why not have spells work similarly?  Flesh to Stone causes damage and if you crit with it, makes someone solid stone.  Maybe the percent chance of critting with it changes based on the level of the target compared to you.  So, if you are a powerful wizard you can walk around turning peasants and weak soldiers to stone with a near 100% chance of success.EDIT: Actually, if this idea was implemented, it might be possible for the DM to adjust the level of deadliness in his campaign fairly easily by moving these sliders around.  DMs who like a deadly campaign might make the spell always crit when used while people who wanted absolutely no save or dies could make the chance of crit 0.</blockquote>