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<blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 49390" data-attributes="member: 1645">Using a natural 20 followed by a natural 20 as a special &quot;instant death&quot; crit just means that every 400th attacks or so -- from anyone, using any kind of weapon, against anyone, using any kind of defenses -- is instant death.&nbsp; Those cannon fodder orcs are just as likely to insta-kill our heroes as the other way around -- only there are hundreds of orcs to fight (not at once, of course), and only a few heroes to fight them.Ideally, special crit rules would favor our skilled heroes, not cannon fodder, and not big, dumb monsters.To that end, I recommend stacking crits -- if you roll a crit threat, then another crit threat, you keep rolling and racking up additional damage multipliers.E.g. Your to-hit is 15 and your crit threat is 19-20.&nbsp; You roll 19 and hit with a crit threat.&nbsp; You roll again and get a 20 -- second crit threat.&nbsp; You roll a 16 and cement that second crit.&nbsp; Instead of just doing x2 damage, you do x3.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmadsen, post: 49390, member: 1645"] Using a natural 20 followed by a natural 20 as a special "instant death" crit just means that every 400th attacks or so -- from anyone, using any kind of weapon, against anyone, using any kind of defenses -- is instant death. Those cannon fodder orcs are just as likely to insta-kill our heroes as the other way around -- only there are hundreds of orcs to fight (not at once, of course), and only a few heroes to fight them. Ideally, special crit rules would favor our skilled heroes, not cannon fodder, and not big, dumb monsters. To that end, I recommend stacking crits -- if you roll a crit threat, then another crit threat, you keep rolling and racking up additional damage multipliers. E.g. Your to-hit is 15 and your crit threat is 19-20. You roll 19 and hit with a crit threat. You roll again and get a 20 -- second crit threat. You roll a 16 and cement that second crit. Instead of just doing x2 damage, you do x3. [/QUOTE]

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