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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3975821" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>The problem is your phrasing. You are implicitly defining "critical hit == devastating blow".</p><p></p><p>This evidently isn't the model that they are using in 4e. Rather they are saying that anyone has at least a 5% chance of doing as much damage as the weapon is physically capable of doing.</p><p></p><p>Critical hits are redefined as 'does maximum damage'.</p><p></p><p>In other words, for the farmer he might roll a 20 and do 6 points damage with his sickle - but he might roll a 14 and hit and do 6 points damage with his sickle.</p><p></p><p>Furthermore, the skill of the mighty epic hero would be reflected in his feats and powers which he can bring to bear on both his ordinary attacks and his critical hits - so that at ALL TIMES the mighty epic hero is doing more damage than the farmer, and on some of his critical hits he is probably going to be doing much more damage than even the best of his normal hits because of 'critical activated' powers or feats or magic weapons.</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 3975821, member: 114"] The problem is your phrasing. You are implicitly defining "critical hit == devastating blow". This evidently isn't the model that they are using in 4e. Rather they are saying that anyone has at least a 5% chance of doing as much damage as the weapon is physically capable of doing. Critical hits are redefined as 'does maximum damage'. In other words, for the farmer he might roll a 20 and do 6 points damage with his sickle - but he might roll a 14 and hit and do 6 points damage with his sickle. Furthermore, the skill of the mighty epic hero would be reflected in his feats and powers which he can bring to bear on both his ordinary attacks and his critical hits - so that at ALL TIMES the mighty epic hero is doing more damage than the farmer, and on some of his critical hits he is probably going to be doing much more damage than even the best of his normal hits because of 'critical activated' powers or feats or magic weapons. Cheers [/QUOTE]
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