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<blockquote data-quote="Pakki Sukibe" data-source="post: 8343032" data-attributes="member: 6789125">I'm honestly a little worried about the critical hits doubling flat damage. One of the reasons I moved away from Pathfinder and, subsequently, avoided Pathfinder 2E was how much more powerful flat damage and crit stacking was. Essentially, the flat damage got to a point where dice rolling didn't really matter, because all you had to do was crit and make your flat damage do the work. I remember just having the wind sucked out of me when everything kept dying to crits into late game for over a hundred damage. Even at level 2, I remember the dragon fight in the PF2e adventure being trivialized cuz the barbarian crit for 90% of its health, and that was the only attack that landed.In 5e, it's a little bit of a concern too since you can get flat damage from things like Dueling fighting style and GWM/Sharp Shooter. Also, with the additional critical effects on things like the new barbarian, it becomes doubly concerning.I hope the flat damage doubling is optional or that the sources of flat damage in LevelUp are greatly diminished to mitigate this problem.I think having doubled flat modifiers on crits is problematic especially when the game is still using hit dice HP instead of maximized HP.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pakki Sukibe, post: 8343032, member: 6789125"] I'm honestly a little worried about the critical hits doubling flat damage. One of the reasons I moved away from Pathfinder and, subsequently, avoided Pathfinder 2E was how much more powerful flat damage and crit stacking was. Essentially, the flat damage got to a point where dice rolling didn't really matter, because all you had to do was crit and make your flat damage do the work. I remember just having the wind sucked out of me when everything kept dying to crits into late game for over a hundred damage. Even at level 2, I remember the dragon fight in the PF2e adventure being trivialized cuz the barbarian crit for 90% of its health, and that was the only attack that landed. In 5e, it's a little bit of a concern too since you can get flat damage from things like Dueling fighting style and GWM/Sharp Shooter. Also, with the additional critical effects on things like the new barbarian, it becomes doubly concerning. I hope the flat damage doubling is optional or that the sources of flat damage in LevelUp are greatly diminished to mitigate this problem. I think having doubled flat modifiers on crits is problematic especially when the game is still using hit dice HP instead of maximized HP. [/QUOTE]

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