Woohoo! I crit with a daily!

[blargney the second]

I got to experience the joy of critting with a daily for the first time at our game the other day. Good times!

It's not good to keep all that happiness bottled up inside, so this is the thread to let it fly. Post your stories of crits with daily powers for all to enjoy.
-blarg

 

[Chris Knapp]

Ha! Great thread.

Played in a slightly modified Kobold Halls delve at our last FLGS game day and critted with my 1st level fighter's daily (Knee Breaker) using an execution axe against the lead kobold bad guy: 37 hit points total. Apparently, that didn't kill him. I was rather bummed, so I spent my AP, knowing full well what lay in the next room, and critted again(!) with my at-will (Brash Strike). 22 more points of damage and he went down. Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself. I promptly retired the d20 as it will only fail me from now on. Karma is like that. . .

 

[Phaezen]

I got to experience the joy of critting with a daily for the first time at our game the other day. Good times!

It's not good to keep all that happiness bottled up inside, so this is the thread to let it fly. Post your stories of crits with daily powers for all to enjoy.
-blarg

Critting with a daily is awesome.

First crit at my table in 4E was a level 1 falchion wielding fighter using brute strike.

My favourite crit as a player was when an aspect of Orcus used his full round and an action point (taking two crits from oportunity attacks int he process) to get out of a 2 fighter and rogue sandwich and I critted with the Summons of Khiran sustain ability to teleport him right back.

Phaezen

 

[Victim]

My best crit has been with Curtain of Steel.

It must be demoralizing for the enemies when they die due to a counter attack on their own turn.

 

[Jack99]

My best crit was when I outfitted King Skalmad (P1) with a artifact (excecutioner' axe) and critted the fighter in the group for 89 points of damage. The Skalmad action pointed and critted again. (I roll all in the open, so no players crying foul play), sending the at that time 13th level fighter from full (more or less) hit points to dangerously close to permadeath (minus bloodied) in a round. Too bad the old troll didn't have a kick as minor action left - That did shake up the fight a tad.

Of course, the player has since had his revenge. He now has the axe and rolls at least 4-5 crits per game night, decimating monsters left and right.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Congrats, we haven't seen one in our campaign yet.. we're at level 8!

My next session on Monday I am introducing a rule suggested here: "After you roll all dice for you daily power you may choose to NOT apply it's effects. You have still spent the action but the Daily is not expended"

We have too many dailies that miss, just bad luck not high numbers required, and it sucks.

 

[Hellzon]

A makeshift D&D Experience at GothCon* 2008, before the books were out. We were running through a series of encounter with the then-leaked monsters, ending with a Young Black Dragon.

I was playing a (level 1) Dwarven Fighter, with Brute Strike as my daily. Could only hit the dragon on a 20, but Brute Strike is Reliable, so of course I kept trying it. Critted for 48-ish damage on the third try or so. That was sweet.

Of course, the dragon didn't even flinch.

*) In Gothenburg, even.

 

[drothgery]

I got to experience the joy of critting with a daily for the first time at our game the other day. Good times!

It took me a few weeks before my first 4e character (a warlord) hit with his daily. Despite an 18 strength.

 

[MichaelSomething]

One time I killed myself when I crit with Villian's Menace. As I died I said, "At least I got killed by a really cool and powerful person!"

 

[blargney the second]

It took me a few weeks before my first 4e character (a warlord) hit with his daily. Despite an 18 strength.

That sounds remarkably similar to my case. I've been playing my 7th level eladrin taclord for almost a year now, and this is the first time he's actually hit with Lead the Attack, let alone crit with it!

It was pretty much the ideal situation to crit with that power: a higher level elite soldier (Inferno Abishai) at full hit points. I needed a 17 or higher to even hit him in the first place. He went down like a chump after that! His twin brother took a heck of a lot longer to take down, but at least there was only one left to deal with.
-blarg