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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5298475" data-attributes="member: 32740">For over 20 years, up until we started playing 3E we were using a critical chart of some kind or other.  The earliest of them were adapted from Arduin Grimoire critical charts and over time they were rewritten and repeatedly reduced in severity.  I think we just came to view it as... unheroic for our PC's to sustain permanent mutilations, though it was always fun to INFLICT the gore upon the enemy. For 3E we ran it by the book: threat roll, confirmation roll, damage ROLLED twice with applicable modifiers, not multiplied, and then any additional damage added to that (sneak attack). Running older editions again now and essentially using 3E's approach: 20, confirmation roll, damage rolled twice - not multiplied.  However, I, the DM, may declare that other effects for either criticals or fumbles may also be achieved, whether due to circumstances of the combat, or individual attempts at special results.</blockquote>