Combat New Term: Ghetto Critical Hit

TarionzCousin · 28th February 2009, 05:03 AM

One of the guys in my group coined the term "Ghetto Critical Hit."

If you roll maximum damage when you hit, it's a ghetto crit. This is especially true if you roll three or more dice and they are all maxed out.

Cadfan · 28th February 2009, 05:21 AM

I heard that phrase at a convention last weekend from a woman who was representing Goodman Games.

WalterKovacs · 28th February 2009, 05:24 AM

Our group was using "pseudo-crit" in our games.

fissionessence · 28th February 2009, 05:40 AM

We were just calling it, "Ooh, you rolled max damage."

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Sabathius42 · 28th February 2009, 06:20 AM

Yoink.

To bad I just created a maul user. Gonna have to wait awhile.

DS

TarionzCousin · 28th February 2009, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Cadfan

I heard that phrase at a convention last weekend from a woman who was representing Goodman Games.

Hmmmm.... The guy in my group has been using this for several months, and I thought he invented the phrase. But evidence is lacking. Maybe he heard it or read it somewhere.

In any case, it gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling when someone in our group barely manages to hit and then rolls 24 on 3 d8's.

ProfessorPain · 28th February 2009, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by TarionzCousin

One of the guys in my group coined the term "Ghetto Critical Hit."

If you roll maximum damage when you hit, it's a ghetto crit. This is especially true if you roll three or more dice and they are all maxed out.

You guys watched the movie "Gamers"; didn't you?

Jonathan Moyer · 28th February 2009, 10:01 PM

Ghetto crit works. We've been calling it "poor man's crit."

enworldatemylogin · 28th February 2009, 10:58 PM

Doesn't make sense to me. A crit that rolls minimum damage would be a ghetto crit.

jasonbostwick · 28th February 2009, 11:03 PM

In 4e you don't roll damage on a critical hit and simply max damage on all of your dice, unless you have a weapon that adds an additional dice on crits.

darjr · 28th February 2009, 11:19 PM

Thats cool. I'll have to spread that one around here.

I thought a DM around here was saying 'Funeral Damage' when a player had a monster dead by only minimal damage but wanted to roll anyway. Turned out I only 'heard' it. He was just saying 'roll yer damage'.

RefinedBean · 1st March 2009, 12:01 AM

So what would gamers in a ghetto call it?

Dice4Hire · 1st March 2009, 12:17 AM

Probably poser's crit.

Chainsaw · 1st March 2009, 02:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TarionzCousin

One of the guys in my group coined the term "Ghetto Critical Hit."

If you roll maximum damage when you hit, it's a ghetto crit. This is especially true if you roll three or more dice and they are all maxed out.

Guys in my group have been using that recently, too..

Joshua Randall · 1st March 2009, 06:13 AM

I heard it at D&D Experience and started spreading around locally.

I'm already regretting it.

Jack99 · 1st March 2009, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Chainsaw

Guys in my group have been using that recently, too..

After reading this yesterday, I started using it at the game last night. Gave us a few laughs.

Tewligan · 1st March 2009, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by RefinedBean

So what would gamers in a ghetto call it?

They just call it a regular crit. By contrast, they call what WE consider to be a regular crit a "super crit".

StreamOfTheSky · 1st March 2009, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by tarionzcousin

one of the guys in my group coined the term "ghetto critical hit."

*sigh*

Tewligan · 1st March 2009, 07:35 AM

Why so sad, Streamy?

StreamOfTheSky · 1st March 2009, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Tewligan

Why so sad, Streamy?

I just in general don't like it when "ghetto" is used in the positive sense much at all. The word makes me think of certain sections of town in the middle ages and certain "camps" during the Holocaust. Never really got into the whole slang reinvention of it.