doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
What?? I'm not sure what you mean. Why would you max a die you've already rolled and then roll it again? That's just a wasted step. I mean, yeah, it's the same thing, other than the waste of time.
It’s simple. When you crit, you max the normal damage dice, you don’t roll them. Then you roll the dice “again”.
You always get a better result than you would have without critting, but you still roll dice for damage. It still has some swing.
Idk how else…a crit in 5e has two sets of damage dice. The houserule I’m referring to has you roll one set and max the other, and then add the result.