[Perks] No critical failure?

[Kazander]

Originally Posted by aesir23

To pick a nit, you mean Ridiculous Luck, not Extraordinary.

Ummmm....oops?
(I'll edit the original)

[Lupo]

Originally Posted by Kazander

Ridiculous Luck (Critical Failures only -10%; Effective Skill must be 16 or greater -10%; Own skill rolls only -20%) [36]

Critical Failures only could be -20% perhaps... it's significantly less useful than full Luck.

If you're playing with multiple people, you're quite unlikely to ever roll more than one critical failure in 10 minutes.

You're definitely right!

Even 30pts Luck (granting 1 reroll per half-hour) will save you from most critical failures.

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Kazander

Note that by the RAW, this perk is specifically not allowed to be used for combat rolls.

I think it's worth more than a mere Perk for this....Critical Misses can change the course of a battle if you drop your weapon or somesuch.

Although note that if you don't roll, you can't get a critical *success* either, and with a combat skill at 18+ those are likely to be common enough to be pretty valuable. Paying a point for the ability to give them up to avoid any risk of critical failure isn't going to be very abusive.

[The Benj]

I'd be pretty comfortable with a Perk that means if you roll a Critical Failure you roll again and it's only a Critical Failure if you roll a failure on the second roll; if you succeed, it's a regular failure. (much like the old method of checking for malfunctions with things that had very high reliability).
This Perk should be per-Skill, I think.
The difference between a failure and a Critical Failure is significant, but not so great that I'm that worried. For someone with an Effective Skill of 16 or more, it's only going to come up 0.5% of the time, so whatever.

[Daigoro]

High-skill fighters won't see so many crit fails on their own rolls, but their high-skill opponents' crit successes on defense rolls can be annoying.

I had a skill 28-something swordsman falling about like Buster Keaton because the GM kept rolling crits on enemy Dodges and Parries. A Perk to avoid that nonsense would be nice.