Choosing to fail a D20 roll [funny-ish]

[vanyell]

I know you can chose to fail a save or skill check on purpose, but can you do similar things with attack rolls?

for instance, if you chose to attack the ground with a body slam?

throwing yourself a the ground and missing.


(BTW Don't Panic. it's just a joke)

[Edan]

I know you can chose to fail a save or skill check on purpose, but can you do similar things with attack rolls?

for instance, if you chose to attack the ground with a body slam?

throwing yourself a the ground and missing.


(BTW Don't Panic. it's just a joke)

It something special to miss the ground tho. You need to be suitably distracted by a nice set of legs or your airline luggage that went missing years ago.

On topic, I have seen a deck of critical fumble cards used for that purpose. I also once played with a group that used a fumble table. It can be funny, but in the long run I personally believe it is more detrimental to the players because it will happen and at the worst opportune times.

[toasty]

Do you know where your towel is?

I know where BOTH my towels are! :D

that was awesome.

[Defiant]

You can, in fact, choose to fail an attack roll.

If you attack the ground with a body slam and choose to fail your attack roll, then you start falling upwards.

[Rebonack]

The problem is that you can't even make the attack roll against the planet. The darn thing is always grappling everyone and you've got a grapple modifier roughly equivalent to escape velocity in order to even attempt to throw yourself at the world and miss.

Sorry.

Though I can see intentionally swinging your weapon at someone and whiffing. I mean, how ward could that be? Just come up a few inches too short. Sure the rules don't say that you can. But playing by the strict rules alone is boring.

And inherently self contradictory (and often nonsensical).

[Lycan 01]

This concept intrigues me. The hilarity that could ensue... For Call of Cthulhu, at least. If my players found out they could auto-roll 100s for certain things, it would be interesting. They've always wanted to know what would happen in certain situations for 100's... (I think we've only had one. A kick roll ended with an awkward drop kick and a dislocated ankle)

Seriously. I already decided that if they roll a 100 on a Spot Hidden check in the 1920's, they'll see a drink machine in the future because that is just how badly they weren't paying attention.

[Mephit]

"I attack all of the air around my opponent!"

[Asheram]

"I attack all of the air around my opponent!"

Reminds me of the time I learnt why not to cast a fireball in an airtight room