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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melhaic" data-source="post: 4192838" data-attributes="member: 57361">What critical hit system do you use? Straight up natural 20, double damage? Or 42 charts? I'm more more the latter. I like combat grim and brutal, so I use the system from 2E Combat & Tactics. With the 3E ranges. Yeah, I like dismemberment.Any "threat" is a crit: none of this cockamamey confirmation roll BS. Damage and effect are based on weapon size relative to the critee (a hobbit critted by a greataxe is ogre jelly). The critee makes a fort save equal to damage dealt, and if it fails he/she/it/they suffer a specific injury. This is where the charts come in. They are based on weapon type vs. area (ie "right arm"), and the severity determined, once again, by size. Weapons with a crit modifier of more than x2 are treated as a category larger. Location is determined by the desciption given by the playerThe fun part about this system is that the heroes leave a trail of severed limbs and sucking chest wounds behind them. It really adds a new side to weapon choice: crit become much more important. Improved critical is taken by all of the party members. Since I run a pretty low magic world where a flaming sword would be more than legendary (think more like Durandal or Narsil), keen weapons are available from the greatest of smiths and dwarven dragon hordes. The players end up ctitting much more than the monsters, but sometimes a player is tagged.The players are cool with it , and it adds real danger in every combat. We even assign scars... even the occasional maiming is nice. It makes the best stories...One player got on a kick that he wanted to play a catfolk (I dread every handing him races of the wild), and I hated it, but allowed it. He lasted about four adventures, then had his face bitten off by a bar-lgra(sp?)Another tried to tear a warg's jaws apart. He rolled a 2. The warg 20. High severity roll=stumpy fingers. Luckily, he was a high strength barbarian an he became a Reaping Mauler, and was cool because of it.The rogue girl sniped a BBEG through the eye .And last but not least one of the best entries on the chart, on the party paladin. Bludgeoning Vs. Head, on a roll of eleven: "Skull crushed,reduced to 0 Hp, major bleeding. Int, Wis, and Cha all drop 1/2 permanently." He is still around, as the now comical noble twit that lives at the castle...Any good maiming/crit stories out there?</blockquote>

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