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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 977145" data-attributes="member: 907">A while ago someone suggested making keen and improved crit both give +1 threat range instead of doubling it (I think it was over on the &quot;Threat ranges don't stack&quot; thread in General). I was quite against it there, however, on account of it vastly benefitting heavy-crit weapons over often-crit weapons.Comparing a scimitar (1d6/18-20/x2) to a pick (1d6/20/x4), for example: Both increase their average damage by 15% due to crits (scimitar: 15% chance of 100% increase, pick: 5% chance of 300% increase). If you double both threat ranges, you end up with both weapons getting 30% extra damage instead of 15% (30% for +100% vs. 10% for +300%). However, if you increase the threat range by 1 instead of doubling it, the pick gets the same bonus but the scimitar is reduced to +20% - much worse than the pick.If you want picks and scythes to be better than scimitars and falchions, go ahead and change. If you want to maintain balance between weapons that are supposed to be equals (martial weapons of the same size), don't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 977145, member: 907"] A while ago someone suggested making keen and improved crit both give +1 threat range instead of doubling it (I think it was over on the "Threat ranges don't stack" thread in General). I was quite against it there, however, on account of it vastly benefitting heavy-crit weapons over often-crit weapons. Comparing a scimitar (1d6/18-20/x2) to a pick (1d6/20/x4), for example: Both increase their average damage by 15% due to crits (scimitar: 15% chance of 100% increase, pick: 5% chance of 300% increase). If you double both threat ranges, you end up with both weapons getting 30% extra damage instead of 15% (30% for +100% vs. 10% for +300%). However, if you increase the threat range by 1 instead of doubling it, the pick gets the same bonus but the scimitar is reduced to +20% - much worse than the pick. If you want picks and scythes to be better than scimitars and falchions, go ahead and change. If you want to maintain balance between weapons that are supposed to be equals (martial weapons of the same size), don't. [/QUOTE]

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