Really nasty crit, or bad ruling?

[Plane Sailing]

I was NPCing a Frenzied Berserker Grimlock Barbarian Fighter last game session.
He was using a Great Axe.
I rolled a crit.

Str 34 (strength bonus to damage +18)
Power Attacking for Max: 14 points = Damage of +42 due to Improved Power Attack from Frenzied Berserker.
+2 keen great axe (2d6+2 base, x3 crit).

So does that equate to 6d6+186 points of damage, or am I off my rocker?

So without the frenzied beserker levels that would be Str 24 (+10 to damage from strength) and maximum power attack at -14 is far less likely to hit/confirm with only +9 to hit from Str and magic combined, but could give +28 damage.

So sans frenzied beserker it would have been 3d12+120, still fearsome but without any of the things in FB which should never have seen the light of day IMO. What *were* the designers thinking about with that one, eh?

Regards,

 

[James McMurray]

Perhaps they figured that the game could use an unstoppable juggernaut of destruction who had a builtin two-edged sword?