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u/Low-Implement9819 2d ago
Ohhh, now i understand what's a critical failure
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u/depthninja 2d ago
Except this isn't really a good example of a critical failure. A crit failure in this instance would be more like dropping the glass, or shattering it when pushing it against the lever, or tripping and face planting into the water dispenser, etc.. The critical failure is your fuckup, not a random change of what comes out of the dispenser. If the roll is to determine what comes out of the dispenser and there are multiple different possibilities... Usually that kind of roll is done with percentage die/dice, and there technically is no critical failure, just a range of possibilities.
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u/SonGoku9788 2d ago
I once spent several days designing a DnD one shot scenario where critical successes/failures would result in absolutely absurd and unpredictable events happening. Called it Bullshit and Dragons, never got to play it with anyone, unfortunately.
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u/YoutuberCameronBallZ 1d ago
A crit fail is holding the glass upside down while filling it
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u/depthninja 1d ago
That too. DM's discretion.
We play with a house rule where you "confirm" your crit failure by rolling again: 20 and it's not too bad, you just fumble the action which fails but there's no further penalty, down to another 1 which is the worst outcome that involves some kind of penalty including losing a few HP. If you rolled another 1 on the second roll, you roll a third time to see if you get another 1. Roll three 1's in a row and your character dies due to the nature of the critical failure. Flip side is for rolling 3 20's in a row similarly, your character gets a wish spell (regardless of caster ability). It's entertaining when it happens either way but both are incredibly rare.
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u/littlefriendo 2d ago
I think a even better Critical failure is the water gets Vacuumed up** back into the fridge, and now you are both extremely thirsty and you have a broken fridge :P
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u/Belteshazzar98 20h ago
The crit failure would be just putting a glass of water under the ice dispenser with it on cube, which is guaranteed to splash the water all over you.
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u/blue4029 2d ago
imagine the amount of takes they had to do until they rolled a 1
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u/infinitefood 2d ago
Kinda looks like a weighted die
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u/Belteshazzar98 20h ago
It's a spindown. Usually have a hollow core because they aren't designed to be rolled, and have the numbers arranged sequentially rather than spread out so you can just manually move it to the next number as it is meant to be used as a life counter instead of a ra dom number generator. However, the problem with rolling them is that the numbers are bunched together so you could more easily aim for low or high, not because they are weighted to any specific number.
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u/napsterk 2d ago
Too much reddit my mahn , too much reddit. It's just a hot dog. I think ;; insert anikin padme meme ;;
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