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LinkPizza posted...

Sure They can be Though, most DMs I know wouldnt do that. And would give a success to a Nat 20 And for our games, our DM lets Nat 20 be successes as long as its something he lets us do So, maybe in your games, they arent. But in ours, Nat 20s are successes

In my limited experience, my friends that have DM'd have generally treated natural 20's as automatic successes so long as it doesn't outright break the game. If one of us, say, said "I roll to throw a knife randomly into the crowd trying to instantly kill the BBEG and end the campaign," a natural 20 wouldn't succeed because that would be lame, but we all have fun trying to come up with crazy ways for something implausible to happen because the dice willed it, and that's really the only point of playing. For something as fluid as TTRPGs, rules can and should be bent if doing so will make the overall experience more enjoyable for everyone.