Well, true. World Tree doesn't have crits, they have ... I forget the term they use. Each weapon has an extra damage bonus. For every 10 points you roll above the enemy's defense, you deal extra damage. A crit/auto-result system is more simple.Rystil Arden said:
I don't like auto-success on 20 because I don't think that a shaky, epileptic peasant-child wielding a wooden stick nonproficiently at -8 should have the same chance to hit the AC 42 Gold Dragon as a Level 11 Fighter with +21 to attack.Jdvn1 said:
The Dragon is happy--he likes telescoping dice rolls because it doesn't give the Fighter a better chance to hit, but it gives the child a worse chance to hitJdvn1 said:I think the AC 42 Gold Dragon disagrees.
And you could pay 50 Schmoes to go gather information about the super-secret dark mystery that nobody except one man knows (DC 50) and the chance of not learning it after one day would be low.Bryan898 said:Yes, but think it Skill's did have auto-success or failure. A commoner would have a one in twenty chance of launching himself into orbit with Jump
this so reminds me of the gun rules in 2ed.Bryan898 said:Yes, but think it Skill's did have auto-success or failure. A commoner would have a one in twenty chance of launching himself into orbit with Jump
If the epileptic peasant-child has a stick that can by pass the Gold Dragon's DR, the child probably is probably deceptively powerful anyway.Rystil Arden said:The Dragon is happy--he likes telescoping dice rolls because it doesn't give the Fighter a better chance to hit, but it gives the child a worse chance to hit
