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Yeah, again, I'm not arguing this is a great way to do crits, just getting my hackles up about accusations that my math was wrong. :)

I’m not questioning your math, but the difference is that on a d20, the chance for a crit remains 5% whatever the target number is. By...

Check out the free pdf, watch some YouTube videos about it, and maybe go check out your FLGS to see if anyone is running a game you...

Check out their free starter PDF?

It's much less so than 4e for sure. There is a free version you can test.... Though it isn't complete, obviously.

AGE (sort of) does exactly this, granting a number of Stunt Points (SP) for rolling doubles. You get the number of SP showing on the...

Worth noting that AGE sort of hacks 3d6 to have a system for more common "crits" by creative use of both doubles and degrees of success...

Sure. Again, I was responding to a specific comment. The Marvel game uses a 3d6 pool, but only one (the marvel die) determines a...

I agree with this. As I said upthread, it's one reason I'm deeply skeptical of companies that port their system to every genre...

The d20 has the advantage of fairly regular "crits." That's just generally makes the game more exciting.

For most gamers, and I include most GMs here (those who don’t post in online forums and/or watch YouTube videos about game design), a...

Yeah, but the trade-off is that it complicates implimentation of other elements of the system crossing over. The old OD&D system using...

Well, I'm on record as saying I don't think this ever serves a particularly good purpose. In particular, of you're just substituting a...

Players' ability to intuitively judge probability, at least roughly, is definitely important for player agency. And I agree that linear...

As I thought I made clear in the OP: this thread isn't about "my game's" core mechanic. It is about core mechanics in general. It isn't...