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<blockquote data-quote="Gammadoodler" data-source="post: 8746511" data-attributes="member: 6914290">Any duration is kinda workable as long as there is counterplay available and a cost benefit decision made to inflict the condition.Attaching a mechanic solely to crits makes the ability less tactical, but does make crits more impactful (and to my mind, more thematic). It gives you a chance to feel like that perfect strike really did ring a creature's bell rather than &quot;haha..you lose all these hp..and if you don't die..then it hasn't impacted your capabilities in the slightest&quot;.But you could have both. Some abilities on demand or at the cost of some resource, and some passive debilitation on a crit.The player-facing side would have to be addressable either through some combination of making the abilities infrequent and/or hard to execute on the monster side, or through the existence of player-facing resources to address the debilitations.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gammadoodler, post: 8746511, member: 6914290"] Any duration is kinda workable as long as there is counterplay available and a cost benefit decision made to inflict the condition. Attaching a mechanic solely to crits makes the ability less tactical, but does make crits more impactful (and to my mind, more thematic). It gives you a chance to feel like that perfect strike really did ring a creature's bell rather than "haha..you lose all these hp..and if you don't die..then it hasn't impacted your capabilities in the slightest". But you could have both. Some abilities on demand or at the cost of some resource, and some passive debilitation on a crit. The player-facing side would have to be addressable either through some combination of making the abilities infrequent and/or hard to execute on the monster side, or through the existence of player-facing resources to address the debilitations. [/QUOTE]

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