After rolling a Strength check to move a heavy cabinet, I got anat 1 and the cabinet fell on me.
1992 October 5, Jordan M. Wolbrum, “Critical Hits”, inrec.games.frp.dnd[1] (Usenet):
in the Dark Sun campaign I'm playing in, the DM handles crits/fumbles this way: Natural 20: an excellent attack, player gets a bonus attack, if he gets anotherNat. 20, he gets a 3rd attack, and so on.
1995 September 21, Deanna Hatter, “How to roll d16 in level distribution?”, inrec.games.frp.dnd[2] (Usenet):
Almost killed my cleric mage when she was juggling with another bard...missed the juggling check, rolled anat 20 on the to-hit roll, and rolled maximum damage...and said cleric-mage was already wounded, and recuperating...8P
2022, Shelly Mazzanoble,Welcome to Dragon Talk: Inspiring Conversations About Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Love to Play It, Iowa City, I.A.:University of Iowa Press,→ISBN,page56:
But she continued. "I do a Survival check to see if there are any worm people in these puddles... and roll anat twenty!"
And at the laste, yif that any wight wene a thing to ben other weyes thanne it is, it isnat only unscience, but it is deceivable opinioun ful diverse and fer fro the sothe of science.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page58
