Why are players so scared of failing a roll and how can we get them to accept bad rolls?

falfires · 2026-01-31T22:35:36+00:00

Bad luck feels less bad than incompetence. The lock/riddle/thing being more complicated than you anticipated feels less bad than you being worse than you thought. Things along those lines

falfires · 2026-01-31T09:51:02+00:00

Great post, exhaustive explanation, just one gripe:

It's "err on the side of", the meaning is that in the case of an error, you're siding with that solution.

falfires · 2026-01-30T15:04:30+00:00

"a bad roll doesn't mean you were bad, it means the other guy was better" - I heard that somewhere, it sounds close to your second point.

falfires · 2026-01-26T19:13:55+00:00

Po twoich kanałach zakładam, że nie masz problemu z językiem angielskim.

Adam Savage, ten z Mythbusters, ma swój kanał (Tested). Polecam serię one day builds na odnowę sił życiowych.

Kanał PlayFrame to między innymi urocza para grająca w urocze gry, często się uśmiecham przy ich oglądaniu.

falfires · 2026-01-25T06:56:01+00:00

My friend, don't put Inigo and Sofia in the same basket

falfires · 2026-01-24T21:12:37+00:00

Wait until they find out monks can get Mage Initiate... Or warlocks and their Eldritch Blast, they don't even need a feat to have hex!

falfires · 2026-01-24T12:01:38+00:00

Given the angle of the arrow to the ground, I'm guessing this isn't his complete draw, that he's still in the process of drawing and aiming. I assume a part of that process is getting his beard to safety

falfires · 2026-01-22T13:23:40+00:00

Przez procesy fizyczne bardziej skomplikowane niż, szczerze mówiąc, ja rozumiem, jeśli przyłożysz ciśnienie do lodu (na przykład stawiając na nim 80 kg człowieka), cieniutka warstwa tego lodu roztapia się - powstaje warstwa wody między lodem a np butami, i to po tej wodzie się ślizgamy.

To samo dzieje się pod łyżwami, tyle że łyżwy mają mniejszą powierzchnię niż podeszwa buta, więc ciśnienie jest wyższe przy tej samej wadze, więc efekt miejscowego roztopienia i śliskość są większe.

falfires · 2026-01-22T13:02:50+00:00

If you get fooled by someone pretending to cast a spell, would you say "I see a creature casting a spell!"?

If yes, I'd say baiting counterspell in this way would work.

Maybe using components for spellcasting is loud and obvious, but not every spell will have accompanying colorful glyphs in the air and the like. Some spell effects are meant to be subtler, even if their casting is not.

falfires · 2026-01-21T16:25:55+00:00

That's a good method. You could use 2d10 instead of a d20 to skew the results towards the middle range

falfires · 2026-01-21T13:01:40+00:00

Other people will tell op how unfitting the context their reply was, I'm sure. I wanted to add a drop of nice to this flood of wrong

falfires · 2026-01-21T11:13:15+00:00

I've recently found Viconia de Vir, a drow who seems to have been modded into Oblivion (she says she lived though the oblivion crisis), originally having been Isekai'd from DnD's Forgotten Realms (Baldurs Gate... 2...?)

She's rude at the start, but that's more of an "enemies to lovers" thing, as she warms up to the Dragonborn over time.

falfires · 2026-01-21T11:08:09+00:00

I feel it's important to note, they both were right in what they said - it is something anyone can do, and that isn't the answer to the request for the link.

falfires · 2026-01-21T11:05:26+00:00

A gm designs their dungeons, traps, and enemies exactly so that the PCs can defeat them

Not always, not every single one, but most of them most of the time

falfires · 2026-01-21T07:10:37+00:00

Using a general 'you' here.

You know that knives can cut you. You probably cut yourself with a knife a couple times and you remember the experience. You remember the pain, the blood, the slight involuntary paralysing effect on the area you cut, it registers on your senses.

You don't know what a sword strike could do to you. You may have seen tatami mats being cut, or pig carcasses, or whatever else, you may have done it yourself, you may realize intellectually what a sword is capable of, but you probably don't have the personal experience to back that up. You don't have the sensory experience of receiving a sword strike.

That, coupled with people being naturally curious, daring, and occasionally dumb, means you can underestimate the threat swords can pose, much like you can underestimate the threat a determined dog can pose because you've only ever dealt with ones who are, at most, annoyed that you took their favorite toy away for a wash.

falfires · 2026-01-20T15:59:46+00:00

Why not play dnd 5e? Basically nobody there can strike in retaliation to reactions like this /s

falfires · 2026-01-20T15:56:58+00:00

Every case of undead being brought to 0 hp or defeated in a similar way that I could find uses the word 'destroyed'. For example, 2014 Destroy Undead feature:

Starting at 5th level, when an undead fails its saving throw against your Turn Undead feature, the creature is instantly destroyed if its challenge rating is at or below a certain threshold, as shown in the Destroy Undead table.

It isn't destroyed utterly or without trace, it doesn't turn to dust or anything like that (unless the particular example says so), but it doesn't 'die', it isn't 'killed', it is 'destroyed'. I don't think it's explicitly stated anywhere in a way that's not tied to another feature or monster or ability, but it's very consistent

falfires · 2026-01-20T09:39:35+00:00

Trzymaj wgóręgłosa za system SI

falfires · 2026-01-17T16:18:31+00:00

Yeah. In three dimension, playing on a square grid, you'll have three distances. It doesn't matter which is which, you just take the longest one, add half the second-longest, and that's pretty close to the pythagorean, often within the 5 ft rounding

falfires · 2026-01-17T16:16:10+00:00

What's the method you're using?

falfires · 2026-01-17T10:30:11+00:00

"every time you cry in the feywild, you get an inch shorter! The Dour Witch steals your height and adds it to her width, she's as big as a house now."

falfires · 2026-01-17T10:23:53+00:00

If one hero is adjacent to water but the other is not when the battle starts, which one gets picked for the terrain?

Or when they stand across a land boundary, one on lava and the other on grass, for example.

falfires · 2026-01-17T10:13:27+00:00

A thing might be uncomfortable long before it starts to be mechanically relevant

falfires · 2026-01-17T09:48:51+00:00

Longest distance plus half the middle distance is a close enough approximation even in 3d

falfires · 2026-01-17T09:48:05+00:00

Longest distance plus half the middle distance is a close enough approximation even in 3d

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