Dnd Natural 20
I was recently playing DND and discovered that natural 20 dosent represent enormus luck borderline game changer.
I come from from computer game like Heroes of might and magic and Diablo are the closest games I played to rpg. They all are extremely scripter and tied to in game logic rules , hence I was never fullfilng the Role-Play aspect of RPG, becuase the role play for me felt underwhelming,pipelined and stright as a railroad with personal imagination and shaping reality with your actions.
When I was first introduced to DND I exspceted the biggest problem (that I described earlier) to be solved
Now its not a soules computer doing his calculations , it's a real human witch open a huge amount of possibilities and remove the code and xomputing power forced restrictions.
But one of the main attractions of players imagination and creative thinking that is tied to a very high luck (natural 20 roll) is being dismissed because the old rules said so , because it represents how well the chcter perform and action that's it ?
I am bot saying:
"Roll a nat 20 and the king just randomly passes his kingdom"
The player need to come with a convincing creative solution, for exsample:
"When you spoke to the king the king recognised you as his successor based on an old prophecy , the king decided to to pass his kingdom to you in order to fill it.
What I am saying is:
The nat 20 doesn't force an impossible outcome
It causes fate to reveal a path that nobody knew existed.
I originally planned to post it on a dnd sub, but based on some other post that shared similar to my opinion all the arguments were it just "that against the rules"
Without any spark for discussion.
Posted Jun 6, 2026, 9:31 PM UTC