It's luck.
Sometimes I wasn't able to beat easy mobs, next time I was able to get rid of phase spiders and matriach spidy.
Sometimes I fail persuasion rolls with target 5 or less (I recall lossing to a target 2

), sometimes I win persuasion rolls against the unthinkable (I recall a winning roll against a 19).
I get the frustration (specialy when in a fight bad luck means a lot of miss or 1 damage point) but I think is just bad luck [I'm a master to natural 1s rolls. I remember my first tabletop play with Vampires The Masquerade, my first scene was meant tobe be: awake, explore your lair start exploring the neirghbourhood, it ended with the lair burned down, the master of my vampire pissed of, ambulances and firetrucks at the door and my character running from the police and the mob. All the result of an epic trail of 6 consecutives natural 1s

]