**neon pixii** @quine · Jun 30, 2018, 08:14

**neon pixii** @quine · Jun 30, 2018, 08:14

neon pixii @quine

Jun 30, 2018, 08:14

the new DM runs a very brutal game and idk if i necessarily prefer it because my last character literally died because i got a 1 on a perception check that i made (NOT a save or anything)

like i kinda feel like making 1's interesting is one thing but killing off characters or derailing a thread because someone rolled a 1 is an entirely different thing.

players at this table are actually hesitant to roll checks like that now because they're scared if they get a 1 they'll be killed off

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed@octodon.social · Jun 30, 2018, 08:18

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed@octodon.social · Jun 30, 2018, 08:18

Jun 30, 2018, 08:18

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@quine
that seems harsh :/
i think none of our parties would get through a session if they just died on crit fails

**neon pixii** @quine · Jun 30, 2018, 08:24

**neon pixii** @quine · Jun 30, 2018, 08:24

Jun 30, 2018, 08:24

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@catoutofbed well to be fair it was

*1 on perception*

you see a thing and you walk towards it. make a dex save

*i fail that*

you fall off a cliff. make a dex save

*i fail that*

you take [all my hitpoints] falling damage.

*i'm now unconcious*

make a death save

*critical fail, so i take 2 death fails*

okay, you now have one chance left, make a death save

*fail*

your character dies

**neon pixii** @quine · 2018-06-30T08:25:09Z

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@catoutofbed so it wasn't an instadeath but it really seems a bit cruel to take a failed roll which tells you whether you see anything or not as "you walk off a cliff into danger"

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**neon pixii** @quine · Jun 30, 2018, 08:27

**neon pixii** @quine · Jun 30, 2018, 08:27

Jun 30, 2018, 08:27

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@catoutofbed like there's a difference between "something bad happens and it drives the story forward in a way where the protagonists become more imperilled" and "something happens and a character gets killed off for literally no reason

**neon pixii** @quine · Jun 30, 2018, 08:29

**neon pixii** @quine · Jun 30, 2018, 08:29

Jun 30, 2018, 08:29

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@catoutofbed an example of GOOD critical fails he did

a player rolled a 1 while looking around a place and accidentaly tripped over one of the robots that lived in the dungeon (it made sense in context) and so the robot captured him (a well established thing the robots do) and carried him deeper into the dungeon, which meant we followed him

a player rolled a 1 while fighting and so their axe got stuck in the floorboards

**neon pixii** @quine · Jun 30, 2018, 08:30

**neon pixii** @quine · Jun 30, 2018, 08:30

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@catoutofbed like those are interesting and cool