augmented crittical

[Corsair]

The Blessed weapon ability does the same thing as bless weapon, +1 value in BoED.

 

[Piratecat]

He has said no to that in the past, and I don't think he could be talked into it. But possibly into treating augment crit as a feat that you need imp crit as a prereq and possibly some min bab

Here's your best bet: Sean K Reynolds, former Wotc designer, made an excellent analysis of this.

http://www.seankreynolds.com/rpgfiles/rants/keenimprovedcritstacking.html

 

[VonRichthofen]

I've seen a house rule where it takes the "a doubling of a doubling is a trebling, not a quadrupling" approach.

That's no houserule at all.

It's the WotC way of handling things, not only with critical hits.

Same goes for damage doublings, charges, et. al.

In your example, a Spirited Charge with a lance that confirmed a critical hit would do 9x base damage & the house rule only would bring it to 5x base damage.
But said "houserule" is the official thing.

This helps to reign in the uber-multilpier-abusing builds at least a bit, alltough hundreds or even thousands of damage per round can still be done with a little creativity.

 

[FreeTheSlaves]

SKR's argument about the specialness is unconvincing.

The overpowered argument is an argument that never was.

 

[Notmousse]

I can't disagree with SKR more. Mechanical benefits are one thing, and not covered fully either, but flavor is a huge aspect of any character I (and many fellow gamers) play.

There's also the 'burst' weapon enhancements which make criticals all the more important.

Imagine a flaming burst, shocking burst, keen rapier with Improved Critical stacking. On a critical hit you're talking an additional 2d10 on top of normal critical hit damage. That's a minimum 40% of all hits if your local cleric blessed the group.

 

[FreeTheSlaves]

Hmm interesting Notmousse..

We disagree with SKR but for differing reasons. When I examined the power of keen it struck me as a rather poor powerplay.

The only time it looks good is with a 2handed 18+ crit weapon, using power attack, and with a large average damage. Oh, and back when vorpal was triggered on a crit.

Nah, burst weapons compare rather unfavourably to flat enhancement, enhancement+energy, and of course holy. Then again, holy spanks everything.

 

[frankthedm]

That's a minimum 40% of all hits if your local cleric blessed the group.

Uhm, autoconfirming crits is a feature of a Paladin's spell "Bless weapon". Not a Bless spell cast on a weapon.

 

[Notmousse]

I meant to type Paladin...