Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassJaw" data-source="post: 8051452" data-attributes="member: 22103">Fun? Sometimes. Necessary? Absolutely not.I'd actually like to see more frequent crits but less swinginess. Again, bringing back the increased crit ranges but tone down the amount of crit damage, at least the spikes. 5E is too spikey: either crits are lackluster (yay I get to roll 2d6 and got snake eyes) or Yahtzee (rogue sneak attack or paladin smite).One of my side projects is redoing the weapon table. I went back to increased crit ranges like 3ed with without the multipliers. I've been crunching the numbers for maxxing the weapon's base damage dice and then rolling additional crit damage. Additional dice don't get doubled.So a greatsword would crit on 19-20 and do 12+2d6 damage and a greataxe would crit on a 20 and do 12+2d12 damage.The math works out surprisingly well and opens up a TON of design space to utilize crits. Average damage is better because the floor is higher but less spiky because the crit damage is controlled.Someday I'll get around to finishing it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f606.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":LOL:" title="Laugh    :LOL:"  data-smilie="17"data-shortname=":LOL:" /></blockquote>