#critical success

[dawnbringerjevella]

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Astarion:

[dungeons-and-dictions]

My fave phrase as a DM

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[risendella]

Yes!

But....

[gongyussy]

i'll let phie-san say it:

[i-roll-d20s]

Intimidate: +15

You rolled a 35! CRITICAL SUCCESS!

Shaking you until your bones rattle dazzle razzle battle the cattle yippie

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CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE

[recordsoftherealms]

We had quite the collection of crit rolls tonight!

[dungeons-and-dictions]

Player rolls a natural 1

Player then rolls a natural 20

[strangesmallbard]

god and how FUCKED is it that the succession ultimately hinged on shiv’s choice, but it was actually no choice at all. your brother (empty husk groomed for power his whole life) or your husband (empty husk who craved power his whole life). for five minutes she had the most power in the room, but it was actually nothing.

[agwitow]

A way to side-step some of the auto fail/succeed issues is to have to have them confirm the critical fail/success. Similar to how weapon crits work.

It makes it significantly less likely to have an actual critical fail/success that way.

For myself (as a forever 3.5 DM), I like to twist the original intention of the check on fails. And give temporary perks on successes.

For example, failing a diplomacy check might result in hitting someone instead of a friendly clap on the back. But a success could mean you get a bonus toward a friend of the NPC you just smooth talked.

Saves are a little less open-ended. I generally give temporary resistance or a bonus toward the next save of a similar type on critical success. And the DMG already has rules about critical fails for saves.

But, anyway... it's a bit of just how you mentally approach the concept of fails and successes, and then a lot of practice.

Some of y’all’s games sound like they go like this:

DM: a strange glowing rune floats in the air

Wizard: i roll arcana to see if it’s magical *natural 1*

DM: the mystical glowing rune floating in the air appears perfectly natural and mundane

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[shorthaltsjester]

if i keep seeing so many people refer to ayden as an indication of an unknown softness in pelor i will start setting things on fire. just because YOU cannot handle nuance does not mean the story of exandria has not contained it and done so consistently. in fact the first in depth interaction that any party had with pelor (vex becoming his champion) was a portrayal of him that was explicit in his complexity. taken straight from the transcript for 1x104 elysium, “[vex you] spin and look, whereas there once was a burning star-- and to the rest of [vox machina], you see the painful, endless light that averts your gaze-- it doesn't hurt your eyes as much, and you can see the faint features, the soft cheeks, the hairless head, and the bright warm eyes of he who brings the dawn. And you can see the smile there, behind the light. “there is hope.”” sunlight can warm you and burn you in equal measure.

that burning image of the sun has much in common with a teenage boy who steps into a dark room, and reminds the dm that it’s not dark. the same way that a teenage boy who stands by as a woman who will not give up her worship of pelor is punished because he has more important responsibilities he must honour has much in common with a seemingly benevolent lord of the dawn might respond harshly to a cleric who asks if he is worth saving while he is trying to find a way to survive so he might keep helping to provide light. the gods aren’t simple and they never have been. i am as psyched about the particular angle that downfall is taking as anybody but it is already frustrating watching people act like the gods are suddenly more nuanced because they’re in literally mortal bodies when the entire Point of the gods in exandria in the various stories we’ve seen so far is that the only difference they have with mortals is the bounds of their power. they carry all the same flaws and the same profundity. just because so much of the fandom has reduced that to black and white flatness or faulty mapping onto real world religions (or the various traumas those might have caused individuals) doesn’t mean that complexity has been missing at all from the story.

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