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Imagine if an experienced pilot crashed on every 20th landing.
Every 20th dish from Gordon Ramsay is just dogshit smeared on a plate.
Maybe that somewhat infamous expensive grilled cheese he showed people how to make over lockdown was him rolling a one.
That video is exactly why chefs should not be allowed to make normal folk food. They keep adding random bullshit and trying to make it theirs when it was perfect to begin with.
Except Jacque Pepin. That dude is always talking about how he grew up poor and uses all of the onion (yeah, even the hard part). He will show you a potato and leek soup that's to die for and costs no money.
No cream? Use milk! No milk? Use water! You will have the best tasting potato water around.
That's why I do crit fail confirms. That way an experienced pilot only crashes every 400th landing.
That's still far more than reality though.
D&D isn't meant to be an accurate simulator of reality. It's meant to be fun. If you find 1 in 400 auto failures to be unfun then don't use it.
Indeed.
Also you can take 10 if you're not stressed.
And that's why you as the DM can do passive skill checks (neé "taking a 10") for non-stressful situations. A routine landing is just 10 + ability mod (probably INT on a big plane with full FBW) + PB. It's only with 3 of the 4 engines down, the 4th on fire, the computers are fucked, you're trying to land the 747 on a dirt strip, and oh, there's a hurricane when you need to actually roll for it.
Though I'm also down with Esper's idea of every class having a limited reliable talent. So every character could pick one class skill at level 7 and one at level 14 in which they couldn't roll under a 10. The "expert" classes (rangers, rogues, bards, and artificers) would have additional picks at levels 3, 10, and 17 with full reliable talent being their capstone feature.
Yes, but nobody plays Tarmac and Turnstiles, the game of Uneventful Travel.
It's called Traveller.