The Pit

god diagnosing me with dumb bitch syndrome

I cant stomach this fuckery and i hate this dickhead

Coyote is a hero

I will fight for coyote

Coyote is a conservationist and a great guy. 

extremely agree- it just makes more sense to tell your player outright if the action they’re attempting is impossible, instead of giving them the false hope of getting a high enough roll to do the impossible thing.  No one likes being told their nat 20 does nothing.

If you allow them to make the roll you need to be prepared for that roll to have some sort of effect, even if minor. A nat 20 also shouldn’t allow the player to acend the realms of possibility (unless you’ve already established your campaign is kind of goofy) and do things like lift buildings, seduce a creature with no intelligence, or leap over a two story building.

A critic only have effect in the roll attacks, not in the stat checks. In those, a 20 its a high number but if the difficulty number of the task is 300, you cant do it.

Technically yeah you can’t crit ability checks but have you ever seen the hopeful sparkling eyes of your barbarian player when they nat 20 their atheletics check?

20 strength is considered to be the maximum of human potential. Like Olympian level bodybuilders and lifters. A barbarian’s rage lets them exceed that potential by going into rage which is in my mind the extreme emotional distress that can let people lift cars of their kids and whatnot. But that takes a toll on the body which is why it makes sense they get exhausted afterwards.

Its such a great bonding experience to be mad about the same thing with the boys.