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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickbeam" data-source="post: 29216" data-attributes="member: 635">Well DnDChick we played last night, and I've managed to catch up on the posts since I last stopped by this thread.  Here are the results of our session and my thoughts on all the new "stuff" and changes herein:-- Our session yielded absolutely NO criticals with which we could test your lovely system <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> .  We spent almost the entire evening fighting undead (with a carrion crawler and a few rats thrown in for variety) and our foes rolled no successful crits, and our threats didn't matter *sigh*.  Nonetheless, we will try again next week, and I'm optimistic that we'll get to use the tables soon.-- As for the recent changes and additional thoughts...1) I love the idea of a natural 1 saving throw resulting in a critical failure opportunity.2) The other tweaks to save DC, healing time, etc. all look great!!3) I agree that there comes a time to make your stand with respect to realism vs. playablility, and your system is great in that regard IMO.  I'm not the biggest fan of critical effect tables, but I do like yours for numerous reasons <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=":)" /> .4) Not to be an arse, but the only suggestions/optional rules posted which retain the intended weapon balance, are those which only allow natural 20's to result in critical effect threatens.  This is the only way our group can agree to use crit tables like yours, otherwise everyone is going to want weapons with 18-20 threat ranges *OR* they'll spend every penny they can on keen blades.  Like I said before, if any threaten causes a roll which initiates the possible effects listed in your system, then logically, weapons which threaten more often will lead to more frequent devastating effects.  Even though the saving throw against damage received from a rapier would have a potentially lower DC than the save versus a greataxe, the rapier will threaten three times more often than the greataxe.  That's why I say that only rolls of natural 20 should activate your tables.Again, great system and hopefully I can share our results with its use, soon <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> !</blockquote>

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