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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9293686" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Again, I fundamentally disagree. Sometimes, when used judiciously, visible mechanics make things better.And there's a perfect way to prove it.Do your players feel awesome when they roll a crit? Do they feel terrible when that crit then rolls minimum damage?* Or absolutely STOKED if they roll max damage?You could hide all of that from them. You could roll all of their attack and damage rolls behind the screen and just tell them what they see. But, if I were a betting man, I would bet good money you'd never, ever do that. Because the purely mechanical perspective of "HELL yes, I got a CRIT!" is objectively worth more than any immersion/verisimilitude/etc. benefit gained from not thinking about making rolls.This is exactly the same thing. A very, very small concession to the fact that yes this is a game, it thus has win and loss conditions, which provides substantial dividends in better player experiences.(*I still don't understand why 5e abandoned the much, MUCH simpler way of doing critical hits from 4e. In 4e, when you crit, you maximize all damage dice. This is technically not as good as rolling twice as many dice, because on average you'll get a teensy bit more, but it has several practical benefits: 4e-style crits obviate the need for rolling, rather than exacerbating it; they're extremely easy to process mentally; and, best of all, you never get a horribly disappointing minimum-damage roll.)</blockquote>

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