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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Artoomis" data-source="post: 4919875" data-attributes="member: 111">Strongly disagree.Page 276 defines a Critical Hit as a special subcategory of a Hit that does Maximum Damage.  edit:  It defines Critical Hit in terms of hit or miss (it's a hit) and getting maximum damage.Page 278 tells you when a potential Critical Hit gets confirmed as an actual critical hit.  edit: It tells you how a Critical Hit works.edit:  Page 276 is the definition, page 278 is the instructions.To put it another way, page 276 defines what happens when you attack ("Attack Results") - the possible results are Hit or Miss.  Within Hit, there are two special scenarios - Automatic Hit and Critical Hit.  Both of those are Hits (by definition).  Within Miss there is one special scenario - Automatic Miss.If you successfully score a critical hit, you have had an "Attack Result" of Hit.  There is no other way to categorize a successful Critical Hit, even if some special power let you skip the normal requirement of rolling high enough to at least tie the target's defense score.</blockquote>