I don’t mind 1s on skill rolls being auto fails, and even quite like the fact there’s always some element of peril, even if occasionally this is hard or even impossible to rationalise.

But given it’s a departure from 5e rules I do agree that Larian shouldn’t force it on people, and as it presumably makes QA an increasing nightmare to have everything optional, would be perfectly okay if they simply brought the treatment of 1s and 20s into line with the core rules.

Originally Posted by Wormerine
Not passing AC of 5 feels off as the game doesn't really highlight that rolling 1 is a special case.

Definitely agree that unless someone is already familiar with table-top rules they’re going to be really puzzled by this - unless there’s a tutorial topic I missed? Of course, given what people have said about the departure from core rules, it’s going to puzzle them anyway but at least they’d be in a position to make a good guess as to what was happening.

"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"