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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6843405" data-attributes="member: 6701872"><p>Once, my fighter in a 4th edition game had a stupid plan to jump into the middle of a bunch of demons and attack all of them. The attacks went okay, but naturally the demons all ganged up on my fighter and beat him down to 0 HP, to which my fellow players expressed worry and I said as cockily as possible "Nah, I'm cool. I've got this." Then my next turn came around, I got a nat 20 on the death save, then someone pumped a bit of healing into me, and next time I had the chance I attacked and rolled a nat 20 there too, killing off one of the demons with the crit damage.</p><p></p><p>Another time, I was playing a mage (in the same 4th edition game as above, though I don't remember if this was the wizard or the sorcerer since I ended up playing both in the same campaign) and used some lightning spell I can't remember the name of... but there were 3 hobgoblins in the area of effect, and I hit all three while getting nat 20s on 2 of the attack rolls. They survived... though my character didn't for much longer.</p><p></p><p>Then there was long before either of those tales, when my group was still playing 3.5. A magical effect had caused the factotum in the party to attack the fighter in the party with their rapier. The fighter player made some comment along the lines of "No big deal, she probably won't even hit." The factotum player then rolled a nat 20. At the time, in fact this very instance is what resulted in the group abandoning the rule in question, the group had voted to use the optional triple critical threat = instant kill rule, so when the critical confirmation roll also landed on a nat 20, a third roll was made - it was an 18, but when using a rapier that is good enough, so the fighter died instantly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6843405, member: 6701872"] Once, my fighter in a 4th edition game had a stupid plan to jump into the middle of a bunch of demons and attack all of them. The attacks went okay, but naturally the demons all ganged up on my fighter and beat him down to 0 HP, to which my fellow players expressed worry and I said as cockily as possible "Nah, I'm cool. I've got this." Then my next turn came around, I got a nat 20 on the death save, then someone pumped a bit of healing into me, and next time I had the chance I attacked and rolled a nat 20 there too, killing off one of the demons with the crit damage. Another time, I was playing a mage (in the same 4th edition game as above, though I don't remember if this was the wizard or the sorcerer since I ended up playing both in the same campaign) and used some lightning spell I can't remember the name of... but there were 3 hobgoblins in the area of effect, and I hit all three while getting nat 20s on 2 of the attack rolls. They survived... though my character didn't for much longer. Then there was long before either of those tales, when my group was still playing 3.5. A magical effect had caused the factotum in the party to attack the fighter in the party with their rapier. The fighter player made some comment along the lines of "No big deal, she probably won't even hit." The factotum player then rolled a nat 20. At the time, in fact this very instance is what resulted in the group abandoning the rule in question, the group had voted to use the optional triple critical threat = instant kill rule, so when the critical confirmation roll also landed on a nat 20, a third roll was made - it was an 18, but when using a rapier that is good enough, so the fighter died instantly. [/QUOTE]
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