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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3974330" data-attributes="member: 114">I'm really pleased with the new design for crits.Although it is true that taking average damage across a characters lifetime crits are only an extra 10% total damage, say - but the problem is that crits can be so much higher than standard damage (any crit with a x3 weapon for instance) that they have a disproportionate effect.As my physics professors used to tell me, knowing the average is meaningless without knowing the variability around that average. They probably used more precise words, but if I'd listened closely to them I'd be a rocket scientist now rather than a web developer so hey ho <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=":)" />A beneficial side effect of simply using maximum die damage for a crit rather than a multiplier is that it removes temptation to add 'additional multipliers' which were responsible for really cranking up the damage. The core books had spirited charge with mounted lance which was nasty enough (x5 crits were brutal if combined with a paladins smite), but subsequent books added more ways of increasing crit multipliers, plus lots of ways to add to the bonus damage which was multiplied.I bet that a large number of melee based sultans of smack would find it hard to work so effectively with static crits rather than multiplier crits.Note: the December preview article said that one of the forthcoming articles would beSubsystem: Critical Hits and Misses.I see Critical hits here - but nothing about critical misses?Cheers</blockquote>

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