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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7889104" data-attributes="member: 177">Then, hopefully,&nbsp; you are realizing that 90% of the rolls will be 14 or under, and that as the game goes on, this has consequences.&nbsp; Combats with critters with higher ACs (and against party members with good ACs) are going to turn unto a bit of a festival of Whiffs! in 5e, because bounded accuracy means the bonuses availalbe to the PCs are already limited.The game stats we have (hit points, AC, and such) were set with assumptions about the probabilities of the die mechanic.&nbsp; You are apt to find that changing the mechanic leads you to have to change those other stats to get an entertaining dynamic in play - having the PCs and Monsters whiffing away at each other for round after round may be rather less fun than you think. How much work do you want to have to do to &quot;limit extremes&quot;, when the extreme only gets a player an extra die of damage anyway?&nbsp; Wouldn't it be better to just say, &quot;I don't use crits&quot;?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7889104, member: 177"] Then, hopefully, you are realizing that 90% of the rolls will be 14 or under, and that as the game goes on, this has consequences. Combats with critters with higher ACs (and against party members with good ACs) are going to turn unto a bit of a festival of [I]Whiffs![/I] in 5e, because bounded accuracy means the bonuses availalbe to the PCs are already limited. The game stats we have (hit points, AC, and such) were set with assumptions about the probabilities of the die mechanic. You are apt to find that changing the mechanic leads you to have to change those other stats to get an entertaining dynamic in play - having the PCs and Monsters whiffing away at each other for round after round may be rather less fun than you think. How much work do you want to have to do to "limit extremes", when the extreme only gets a player an extra die of damage anyway? Wouldn't it be better to just say, "I don't use crits"? [/QUOTE]

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