Critical Misses

[Tread]

I may be miss understanding the rules of dnd but a critical miss occurs when you roll a natural 1 so they should occur at roughly the same rate as a critical hit. They seem to occur at 3 to 4 times the rate of critical hits. I'd like to say i'm just unlucky but I would like to note I've never seen the opposite. This observation is over multiple play throughs so if i'm wrong in my understanding of the rules please correct me.

[RealDealBreaker]

Originally posted by Tread:

I may be miss understanding the rules of dnd but a critical miss occurs when you roll a natural 1 so they should occur at roughly the same rate as a critical hit. They seem to occur at 3 to 4 times the rate of critical hits. I'd like to say i'm just unlucky but I would like to note I've never seen the opposite. This observation is over multiple play throughs so if i'm wrong in my understanding of the rules please correct me.

just luck man. I was playing in my in person tabletop game last night and had the extreme misfortune to start the evening off with a 10 for initiative, then three 1's in a row, followed by a two, and then a fourth 1. Sometimes ♥♥♥♥ just (doesn't) happen.

[Yojo0o]

Well, not just luck. If you're repeatedly making attacks at disadvantage, such as playing as a non-darkvision race and making attack rolls in darkness, you're rolling two D20s and taking the lesser of the two. This is drastically increasing your chances of critical misses versus critical hits.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

It takes thousands of rolls to see something close to what the probability distribution should look like.

You are just unlucky.

[Tomsta]

Welcome to the realm of probability. Sometimes you just get unlucky like Travis did as Fjord

[Tread]

Thanks for the input. It's been happening quite consistently for me and it's been pretty annoying. Just wanted to make sure I was understanding the rules correctly. I look forward to the day I get to experience the opposite.

[droggen]

It works both ways really I got the best rolls possible last night fighting the Gith patrol, Almost every attack that tried to land on me kept critical missing.

[WeenerTuck813]

Originally posted by Tread:

Thanks for the input. It's been happening quite consistently for me and it's been pretty annoying. Just wanted to make sure I was understanding the rules correctly. I look forward to the day I get to experience the opposite.

As someone mentioned above - check to be sure you’re not getting disadvantage for some reason.

[Kryldost]

I stopped caring bout my hit chance 2-3 patches ago, Ill weight my best chance or try to increase it only of it’s absolutely mediocre. I haven’t died until I tried gith encounter without consumables. I barely notice it anymore, I ended quite a few fights with a 20% hit chance :V

[Ronin Gamer]

Your previous results have no bearing on your current or future ones. Each roll of the dice is independent of every other roll. Your dice don't give a flying ♥♥♥♥ you got six critical misses in a row, if the dice decides you deserve a seventh that's what you are getting.

That is how random works. You don't get a magical invisible hand that occasionally pushes the dice one way or the other because the dice decided to be mean to you.
With that said, Larian did in fact add an option for that very thing if you go look in the options menu.

Originally posted by WeenerTuck813:

Originally posted by Tread:

Thanks for the input. It's been happening quite consistently for me and it's been pretty annoying. Just wanted to make sure I was understanding the rules correctly. I look forward to the day I get to experience the opposite.

As someone mentioned above - check to be sure you’re not getting disadvantage for some reason.

Honestly this wouldn't be a bad thing to verify yes. There are things that happen in the game that can alter the chances of the dice roll result you get through advantage/disadvantage and knowing those things, or just inspecting your combat log as you play will help you to verify how it's all playing out.

[WeenerTuck813]

Originally posted by Tinball:

I love with Solasta how you see a +/- for adv/dis. It would a great feature for BG3.

It shows you…

[WeenerTuck813]

Originally posted by Tinball:

Originally posted by WeenerTuck813:

It shows you…

Yes, but not in an obvious way, thus all the questions about it.

Fair enough.
It’s obvious to me in BG3 but I can also recognize other obvious things that I don’t notice so fair enough

[Mosey]

If this bothers you, play a halfling. They have a much, much greater chance of never seeing a critical miss or critical failure.

And some games I seem to crit every other hit, whereas other games I whiff constantly and/or critical miss often.

Manipulating advantage/disadvantage will go a LONG way though. Barbarians using reckless attack crit all the time because of it, and no darkvision characters playing blind in the underdark miss all the time because of it.

[Drendari]

The game is broken the amount of critical miss vs critical hits is absurd. I only rolled a crit on the entire act 1 playing a champion that crits with 19s too, meanwhile critical misses on every single combat even with advantage. have rolled up to 5 1s in a row several times already, this is nonsense.