Fair dice was broken, at least a launch. If you had a really high armor class the NPCs would get an absurd number of nat 20s if that was the only way they could hit you.
One of the things I like from d&d 3.5 is the critical system, where an attacker who rolled a 20 makes a critical threat, but must roll again and hit to confirm the critical, so people with high AC don’t get hit critically every time they are hit
Fair dice was broken, at least a launch. If you had a really high armor class the NPCs would get an absurd number of nat 20s if that was the only way they could hit you.
One of the things I like from d&d 3.5 is the critical system, where an attacker who rolled a 20 makes a critical threat, but must roll again and hit to confirm the critical, so people with high AC don’t get hit critically every time they are hit