I Hit It With My Axe: Episode Six: His Body Closes the Door with its Pieces

[Pills_Here]

I humbly request to see more of that quiet girl in the big glasses. Porn actresses are great and all but she seems to actually know what she's doing (and is ridiculously cute).

 

[Dave Michalak]

Also, I have a general rule that if a player rolls a 20... it works so wonderfully well everything ends up wonderful...
The flipside of this is when they roll 1. I'm actually thinking I need a more cruel critical error table.

The way I generally handle it is "Crit = Awesome, Botch = Interesting". Rather than impose outright failure, or worse, some kind of "fumble" result that makes the character look like a douchebag, I use "1" results as an opportunity to make the situation hum a little. Maybe some more guards show up. Maybe one of the engines on the airship blows out. Maybe your contact with the Thieves' Guild turns up at the bottom of a well. Whatever it is, it makes things interesting and ratchets up the tension without making the player feel like they fucked up or like their character is a pathetic loser.

I'm not saying characters should always succeed, of course they shouldn't. But there's a difference between failing because "oh, you rolled a 1 and cut off your own foot", and "oh, man, your Eagle's Talon kung fu is impeccable, but it looks like the Iron Mandarin's Golden Serpent style is better!"

Failure should be just as interesting and just as cool as success, if not more so. Indiana Jones is the classic example. If Indy were a PC in an RPG, he would fail nearly every roll. But notice how every time he rolls a 1, things get even awesomer?

So, that's my take on it. YMMV, of course.

 

[dernaxses]

i feel that the dungeon master should be more lenient towards accepting some of these crazy ideas, but i can see how that might be hard sence when it comes to game and reality logic there all thick as bricks
also people always seem to get tnt and dynamite mixed
tnt is actually a yellow powder that is hard to detonate
while dynamite is a white powder fairly easy to detonate

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