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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 3974776" data-attributes="member: 20805">This snippet makes sense only if you treat attacks as either targeted or area effects.An area effect, like fireball, would get one attack roll. If you get a Nat 20, you crit and maximize the damage of the fireball. Assuming that fireball is still a 'REF save for half damage, then some of the targets may have a high enough REF save to take only half damage, but its half the maximized results.A targeted effect, like Scorching ray, you could get one attack roll per targeted effect. So a 3e 11th level mage has three Rays and gets three attack rolls. If any of these rolls are a Nat 20, the new crit system saves time as you simply apply the max damage and move on.Its an elegant system, but misses the table punch of the 3e version, unless they have more 4e special powers triggered on a successful crit... but that conversation is being had over in the other thread <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>