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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 3974828" data-attributes="member: 10095">I think it might be more of a case that monsters, for the most part, aren't built with magical weapons from the normal player magical item system. I would assume that unless they wield a symbolic weapon that is unique to that creature (githyank silver swords, death knight sword, etc), they would be given mundane/natural weapons as part of their normal makeup as an encounter. It isn't that you can't place a +1 frost greataxe in an orc's hands and give him that +1d6 bonus on crits, it's that he isn't assumed to have it in the Monster Manual.Remember, monsters are being built to be encounters, not player characters. Also, the original point was you feared that monsters/NPCs could not get a crit at all. I think when they talked about crits being better for monsters, since they're rolling more often, they would have specifically pointed out removing them entirely from monsters if they were doing that. They didn't.</blockquote>