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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Coro" data-source="post: 5321931" data-attributes="member: 87452">The Wheel of Fate is a fun way for your  players to deal with critical  misses when attacking. If the DM can’t  think of anything particularly  fitting that should happen, then the  player spins the Wheel of Fate to  determine the effect. Download: <a href="http://www.readyanaction.com/other/wheeloffate.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>Download for iPhone/iPad: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/wheel-of-fate/id393819446?mt=8" target="_blank">App Store</a><a href="http://www.readyanaction.com/other/wheeloffate.pdf" target="_blank"> </a> <a href="http://www.readyanaction.com/other/criticalmisswheel.pdf" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.readyanaction.com/other/criticalmisswheel.pdf" target="_blank"></a> A lot of people prefer not to penalize  their players for critical  attack misses, but I think it adds a little  fun and challenge to a game  routinely dominated by powerful PC synergy.  If you do use critical  misses and want to give the Wheel a try, I’d  recommend not applying it  to dailies, as many dailies still deal damage  and effects on misses  (and missing a daily is punishment enough most of  the time). If you  want to use the Wheel for encounter or daily critical  misses and it  lands on the “Reroll attack against nearest player in  range” effect,  just have the player reroll a melee or ranged basic  attack instead –  this was the original intent, I just couldn’t fit it on  the wheel tile.  <img src="http://www.readyanaction.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />  Most of the time as a DM there’s some obvious effect for a critical  miss; if they’re balancing on a beam while attacking, they fall; if  they’re throwing something, it hits someone else; and so on. The Wheel  is primarily for when, as a DM, you really can’t come up with anything  that seems to fit. Tell the player to give it a spin and then narrate  the effect into your game. Besides being fun to spin and watch, I had a  super secret reason for  making the Wheel: to reduce stress, irritation,  and animosity at the  table. When a player rolls a critical 1, they often  expect a punishment  from the DM, who has to come up with an effect on  the fly – one that  usually is ill-received and often argued. The player can often feel like  the DM is picking on them personally, and the DM deals with a little  bit of stress while determining whether to take it easy or not. When the  player spins the wheel themselves, they 1) have a chance of landing on  “No Effect”, and 2) inflict their own punishment – they don’t get upset  or angry at the DM for singling them out or ‘screwing them over’.</blockquote>

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