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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassJaw" data-source="post: 2292085" data-attributes="member: 22103">Correct.  It's in Grim Tales (which I will be using).  AP's in GT work quite different than they do in d20 Modern.Yes, I got some ideas from UA (which I have).  As you can see from the article, the threat range is adjusted by one for every step above a x2 crit multiplier.  So a greataxe does 1d12 damage and crits on a 19-20.Another method (although I forgot where it was from), was to keep the original threat range but drop all the multipliers down by 1.  So a greataxe crits on a 20 and has a multiplier of x2.I'll be using the former myself.  Any crit multiplier is too deadly for the VP/WP system IMO.Well IIRC, the SW system is slightly different still.  Every weapon in SW has a threat range of 20.  I like the UA method if you want to use other weapons.  It's the easiest to implement. I don't think it's needed with normal weapons but something similar is needed for sneak attack.  If you crit while making a sneak attack, all those bonus dice are just too much.  If you want sneak attack to be very deadly in your game, them leave it as-is.  Otherwise, grant a +1 bonus to WP damage per sneak attack die.It gets really nutty though if you make a normal sneak attack but in doing so, your opponent's VP total is reduced to 0 but there is still damage leftover.  What happens then?  Does the rest of the damage go to your opponent's WP, even though you could have a ton of sneak attack damage leftover?This isn't a huge concern in SW because so few things grant sneak attack damage (I think one or two PrC's do and that's it).</blockquote>

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