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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 8993471" data-attributes="member: 53980">It seems like your proposal would be more dangerous than standard 5e, but significantly less so than what is proposed in the Reddit post. Keep in mind that chaos tends to favor monsters over the long term, and more crits means more chaos.I would expect players under a house rule like this to do everything possible to minmax their to hit bonus, save DCs, AC, and saves. I realize that some players will minmax those things even in standard 5e, but I've played with plenty of players who didn't, and it really isn't necessary IME. This change would add significant incentives to minmax those stats, since it means more crits dished out and less received, respectively. A paladin, with their bonus to saves aura, becomes even better under this proposal, since that aura makes it significantly less likely that you are crit by spells that have saves.I'd be hesitant to add crits to saves. Those kinds of spells and features are arguably designed around the idea that they can't crit, so you might be opening up a can of worms. Unlike AC, which most PCs can find ways to increase, it's rare to have a good bonus in all saves. This is doubly so for monsters, who often have really poor save bonuses. That makes (save) spell crits disproportionately likely, and something a canny wizard player will be able to exploit. (I consider the wizard to already be one of the strongest classes in 5e, and there's no good reason IMO to buff a class that's already on top.)One more thing to consider is that the monster design system treats HP and AC as essentially existing in a ratio to one another. Raise AC but lower HP, and you have the same CR monster. Raise HP but lower AC, and you again have the same CR monster. But under your proposal, AC becomes disproportionately useful, since beating it by 5 or more means a crit (which is a disproportionate drain on HP). IOW, I suspect that monsters with high AC / low HP (animated armor) would be stealth buffed by this change, while monsters with high HP / low AC (gelatinous cube) would receive a stealth nerf.</blockquote>

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