Critical Hit with Fireball!

[Sir Brennen]

From Rich Baker's Blog:

A brief playtest note from last night's game, DM'd by Dave Noonan: I rolled not one, but *two* critical hits with fireball attack rolls last night. The second actually one-shotted a tough troglodyte skirmisher; just smoked him outright, full hp to dead in one go. Oh, and I had a great initiative roll, so it was the very first thing that happened in the fight. Hee hee hee! Scoring criticals with attack spells is *fun.* My warlord/wizard sure feels like he kicks some butt!

Discuss.

 

[Reaper Steve]

Sounds good to me!

 

[mearlus]

From Rich Baker's Blog:


Discuss.

Posted as I posted it as well. lol

I'm curious if saves are out now too!

 

[Nifft]

Interesting, that's unlike SW Saga's area attacks.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Korgoth]

That's the sort of change that, even if it's not the change I would have made, I don't mind.

Thought I'd throw that in to give some perspective to my Gryffindor and Slytherin hate.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I read that and my eyebrows rose. I like it from what I read.

 

[Arkhandus]

Most likely it means they removed saving throws, and made them into AC-like defense ratings opposed by attack rolls. Or just removed Reflex saves to be replaced with touch AC. To where anything that would normally allow a Reflex save for half or negation would instead be an attack roll, and as such be capable of crits with natural 20 or something. :\

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

The only problem I see is the potential for an enemy Fireball that crits and results in a TPK.

 

[Mercule]

As I said in the other thread, it may grow on me, but my knee-jerk reaction is extremely negative.

 

[Nahat Anoj]

It's no longer D&D if Fireballs can crit.