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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swarmkeeper" data-source="post: 7489126" data-attributes="member: 6921763">Sorry, but not exactly.  Bounded accuracy is most certainly only a fundamental premise of 5e when an outcome is uncertain.  There are plenty of times where an action is either impossible or is an auto-success and bounded accuracy need not apply.  To take it to an extreme, there is no reason for a low level party to have any chance to succeed in combat against an ancient red dragon or some other high CR nasty thing that they had no business engaging with.  And it’s not because the math is “broken”.  It’s because the only chance of success in some situations is not a die roll to attack or save but is “fly, you fools!”</blockquote>