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We use the house rule where players make all the rolls so when they roll a 1 when defending, that's like a crit.
I feel all sorts of ways—sometimes when they're on a roll I can start hoping for some adversity, sometimes when they have a string of bad luck I can root against them, and sometimes when I'm feeling one way I'm playing it up as the other—if you've read Knights of the Dinner Table, that's sorta the vibe—and all of that's fine.
Because when I was prepping the game, I did that as a super fan of the characters. But now once the game is started I can't control it. I can't control how many monsters they meet, or what the stats of those monsters are, because that's all been set. Nor can I control whether or not those monsters crit. I play them hard and to the best of my ability and I don't pull punches 🤷🏻♀️