Rolling a 1

[Joe Mucchiello]

I'm not happy about 1 being an automatic critical failure. Rolling 1 is going to happen to the PCs infinitely more often than it will to any individual monsters. Rolling a 1 should just be automatic failure. It will frequently, but not always be 10 less than the required DC. Critical Failure does not need the boost that Critical Success does.

I could be convinced that 20 should just be automatic success as well. But success is always more fun. :)

[Pepor]

A 1 is not an automatic critical failure. It might be possible in some situations to meet the DC even on a 1. If your roll would equal or exceed the DC even on a 1, you don’t critically fail, but you still fail instead of succeeding. You can’t succeed when you roll a 1 no matter what your modifier is.