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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kreynolds" data-source="post: 169328" data-attributes="member: 2829">Re: Hijack!There are so many situations that a vorpal critical seems rediculous, that we just tried to find a good solution. For instance, is it possible to severe the head of a colossal dragon with a dagger? Shortsword? Hell, even a longsword? Absolutely not. Unless, of course, you're gonna sit there for a while and saw his head off with your vorpal pocket knife.Basically, we decided that vorpal weapons inflict X4 critical damage of your weapon, in addition to your normal critical weapon damage, but the vorpal damage is force damage.Look at it like this. A vorpal longsword on a critical hit will deal 2d8 (longsword crit) + 4d8 force (vorpal longsword crit). Trying to keep with the spirit of vorpal, meaning it's really really deadly, this much damage is pretty freakin' nasty, and there's a good chance it will kill you, if not just hurt really bad. Furthermore, I'm not aware of anything that is immune to force damage.But the best part? Even for creatures that are immune to critical hits, you are still gonna dish out a healthy portion of vorpal damage. Why? You must critical for the vorpal to work. Enhancements that function only on a critical function whether or not the creature is immune to crits. For example, if you crit a skeleton with an icy burst weapon, you don't deal critical damage, but the icy burst is activated. So, with our vorpal fix, you won't deal critical hit damage, but you will deal vorpal damage.Also, consider vampires and the normal vorpal. You can't crit a vampire, but you can cut off his head. This single situation completely broke the vorpal enhancement. It was yet another situation in which the DM would have to make a judgement call. And in my opinion, the vorpal enhancement was more work for me, the DM, than it was worth.Also, it made sense to base the vorpal damage off of the weapon, as a vorpal greatsword is going to hurt much much more than a vorpal dagger.</blockquote>

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