Auto-Confirm Critical?

[Shalewind]

Bless does this against evil targets. How powerful is this ability?

Would it be a +1 or +2 enchantment?

How about in a feat for a specific weapon?

Thoughts? Comments? Balance Issues? Insults? Flames? All Welcome...

 

[kreynolds]

I believe Caliban came up with a weapon enhancement that did just this. IIRC, it was a +3 modifier, and the keen enhancement did not stack with it. I believe improved critical counted though.

In my version of it, Improved Crit works with it, but nothing else.

 

[Shalewind]

Excellent! Thanks kreynolds. I'd be curious to hear your balance issues on a feat and the results of this thread:

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39149

 

[Azure Trance]

Has anyone seen house rules for balanced magical abilities or feats which can improve a threat range? You know, f'when an Improved Critical Keen Rapier just doesn't cut it.

 

[bebo]

i think i have in one of the arcives

 

[Khaalis]

There is a feat in the NetBook of Feats called Vital Strike that allows any Critical Threat to automatically become a Critical, but it is the only place I have seen such a feat as it is rather unbalancing.

Even if keen is not allowed, an Improved Critical user with an 18-20/x2 base weapon would automatically be doing Double Damage on any roll of 15-20 (ie: 30% of the time).

Seems a tad unbalanced. Now throw in weapon modifications like Serrated that makes the base weapon a 17-20/x2, with improved critical it drops to 13-20/x2 (ie: 65% of the time).

Now deity-forbid its a Rogue who has a minimum of a +5d6 Sneak attack by the time they can get Improved Critical....

You can see my point.