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Should Crits be x2 Damage? (And Champion Sucks)
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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6915382" data-attributes="member: 6701872"><p>I get where you are coming from with that, and I guess maybe crits do seem necessary to make attack rolls seem exciting enough for some people... but I watch my players closely during our sessions, especially taking note of anything that happened during the session that seemed to reduce their interest in playing or spoil their mood, and it is the player most strongly negatively affected by his character being critically hit by monsters that confuses me because if his character takes more than one critical hit in a session he is visibly upset and less active within the game, but he insists that he wants to keep critical hits in the game.</p><p></p><p>I guess maybe the thought of one day eventually having an awesome critical hit of his own outweighs even those nights where a few criticals landing on his character has him agitated enough to yell at his dice when they roll low, but from my point of view it really seems like he's just into self-punishment by proxy of his character.</p><p></p><p>Consistent in believing that the champion does what the champion is meant to do, and does it well? Yes. Consistent in telling people a problem they have expressed doesn't exist? No, as the champion is the only time I can recall having actually done that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6915382, member: 6701872"] I get where you are coming from with that, and I guess maybe crits do seem necessary to make attack rolls seem exciting enough for some people... but I watch my players closely during our sessions, especially taking note of anything that happened during the session that seemed to reduce their interest in playing or spoil their mood, and it is the player most strongly negatively affected by his character being critically hit by monsters that confuses me because if his character takes more than one critical hit in a session he is visibly upset and less active within the game, but he insists that he wants to keep critical hits in the game. I guess maybe the thought of one day eventually having an awesome critical hit of his own outweighs even those nights where a few criticals landing on his character has him agitated enough to yell at his dice when they roll low, but from my point of view it really seems like he's just into self-punishment by proxy of his character. Consistent in believing that the champion does what the champion is meant to do, and does it well? Yes. Consistent in telling people a problem they have expressed doesn't exist? No, as the champion is the only time I can recall having actually done that. [/QUOTE]
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