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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swarmkeeper" data-source="post: 8475559" data-attributes="member: 6921763">Fair enough, and nothing wrong with it, for a house rule.Of course capable doesn't mean perfect.  Failing hard is often part of the failure condition stakes that are laid out for the DC presented for the ability check.  That's the whole concept of "meaningful consequence for failure" espoused in the ability check rules in 5e.  Sometimes fail conditions are worse than other times.  Failing hard need not be determined by the actual number on the die - and, while there's nothing wrong with playing that way, indeed this manner of failing hard (where the lower the number, the worse the result) is not supported by 5e RAW.  True.</blockquote>