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Difference between critical hits and automatic hits.
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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6373704" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>For me personally... I've never used the idea that just because the term 'critical hit' has the word 'hit' in it, that means it is equivalent to the successful attack roll that is defined as a 'hit'. If the term they had used was called 'critical shot' to define when you get to do extra damage, would we make the jump that it is always an automatic successful hit? Maybe some might, but I know I wouldn't.</p><p></p><p>The game has traditionally said that 1s were always misses and 20s were always hits, regardless of whether they would or wouldn't hit ACs even with those numbers. Critical hit ranges never played into it. And the fact the book specifically calls out '20s' and not 'critical hits' as the roll that automatically hits, tells me to follow my instincts on this (which for me include past history of the game.) The book may say all 20s are automatic hits, and that all 20s are critical hits... but it doesn't necessarily follow that all critical hits automatically hit. After all... I can state that all robins are birds, and all robins are spelled R-O-B-I-N... but that doesn't mean all birds are spelled R-O-B-I-N. </p><p></p><p>So I'm okay with the decision I've made on it. But then again as so many folks have said... with Bounded Accuracy it's probably not going to come up all that often anway, so I'm not going to worry my pretty little head over it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6373704, member: 7006"] For me personally... I've never used the idea that just because the term 'critical hit' has the word 'hit' in it, that means it is equivalent to the successful attack roll that is defined as a 'hit'. If the term they had used was called 'critical shot' to define when you get to do extra damage, would we make the jump that it is always an automatic successful hit? Maybe some might, but I know I wouldn't. The game has traditionally said that 1s were always misses and 20s were always hits, regardless of whether they would or wouldn't hit ACs even with those numbers. Critical hit ranges never played into it. And the fact the book specifically calls out '20s' and not 'critical hits' as the roll that automatically hits, tells me to follow my instincts on this (which for me include past history of the game.) The book may say all 20s are automatic hits, and that all 20s are critical hits... but it doesn't necessarily follow that all critical hits automatically hit. After all... I can state that all robins are birds, and all robins are spelled R-O-B-I-N... but that doesn't mean all birds are spelled R-O-B-I-N. So I'm okay with the decision I've made on it. But then again as so many folks have said... with Bounded Accuracy it's probably not going to come up all that often anway, so I'm not going to worry my pretty little head over it. [/QUOTE]
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