Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion First time I've seen a critical failure be a critical failure!

So critical successes often come with things like critical hits. Critical failures should also come with some extra failure beyond just flopping like a goofball.

I've never seen this, but I just did. There's this +1 dagger stuck in a piece of meat over a fire next to, you know, that barn. Anyway, I went to pull it out, and chose the dexterity option since I had high dex.

Critical failure! Bummer, I'll re-roll, wait, no re-roll option, wait...whaaaaa???

The dagger had broken in half, half still in the meat, half on the ground.

Nice! Never seen a critical failure actually have an extra bad outcome before. This game leaves out the usual result of critical failures in combat, you dropped your weapon.

Probably for the best critical successes don't add a little bonus beyond a critical hit, or the game would turn into continuous savescumming by minimaxxers. Uhh, not that I am one. I didn't reload out of sheer respect.

Good job!

+1
Although the dagger breaks on any failure, IIRC.

Nah, you're free to use Inspirations to reroll other failures.


Technically, such things are homebrew.

RAW doesn't have any special things for Nat 1's or Nat 20's. Heck, RAW doesn't even have Nat 1's or Nat 20's mean anything outside of specifically attack rolls (Where they're just simple auto-fail or auto-success respectively with a 20 also being a critical roll)

It's a popular homebrew because it spices up TT sessions when you have essentially "Wild Magic" type random effects associated with these types of roll - With myriad of consequences up to the DM to decide. But it's not actually part of any ruleset (Even the earlier editions when Nat 1's and Nat 20's did in fact work on skill checks).

If it makes a difference, I'm playing honor mode-lite, where I chose that ruleset but not limited to just the one save file. Is this an honor mode thing?