Admittedly my wizard wasn’t gonna leave much in the way of cleanup once she took her turn.

Don’t even get me started on the time we rolled a natural negative

My games tend to be more grounded, so when I have run critical skill checks, they are a success with a reasonable bonus. A critical persuasion check might have the guard believe your phony story but also accidentally let slip some useful info as you’re passing through the gates because he’s let his guard down.

But in a game where the vibe is more out there and power fantasy-y, heck yeah, let your 20s rewrite reality!

For ages I’ve had an itch to do a higher level campaign (or maybe adapting Godbound) where the Great Modron March inadvertently unleashes the chaos of Avernus upon other planes.

Figured a “great escape from lava” section would actually be my start.

The second lamest person in that party rode a nightmare to the top, after driving his hell machine off a cliff to get more air, he dipped, summoned his nightmare, and watched the miniboss plummet into hell lava with his death tractor. I made him roll for that shit after he announced what he wanted to do and he hit a nat 20. I didn’t argue rules with the dice, it was too cool. He had crippled the things wings so it couldn’t fly off. Absolute dick move on his part. All of it hilarious.

I’ll grant you time and space.

*leaves*

I’ll take that fun “I’m actually a God” moment every time if I can.

Edit: if thats O’Brien im guessing a transporter problem

If you’re 2ft tall and trying to destroy an iron wall and roll a 20, you successfully scrape some iron off the wall. It doesn’t just collapse spontaneously. If you roll a 0 1, your attack bounces off and your weapon breaks. Luckily it didn’t rebound and hit you.

It makes things more believable, however rule of cool is obviously above that. So if you can do a flip off a cliff onto the back of a dragon and convince it to attack the tarrasque for you before it eats you, and roll a 20 for all that, you better believe that dragon now considers you it’s deity, and will die in a ball of flames, acid, ice, etc, in your name while flying headfirst down the tarrasque’s throat. The tarrasque obviously dies from this, since it’s so epic.

I guess it really depends on the stakes.