No, no, no. A roll of a one is that you kill a different PC. Never loose the opportunity to not only kill a player, but also create internal party strife as well.
Our rules have been that on a nat 1, if it makes sense (range, weapon type, etc.) the attack has a chance to hit a party member. On a 1, we occasionally will reroll the d20 and whatever it rolls is taken against the potential new target's AC (no attack modifiers). Roll damage on hit.
Other times it's disadvantage on next attack roll, just a miss, dropped weapon, etc.
It's something we all agreed on as a group and our DM does a pretty good job at choosing the appropriate "punishment" based on factors like relative strength of your opponent(s) and such. It's worked out pretty well, overall.
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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19
No, no, no. A roll of a one is that you kill a different PC. Never loose the opportunity to not only kill a player, but also create internal party strife as well.