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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9342116" data-attributes="member: 6877472">If Hardy is used sparingly, I don't think it's a problem.  Players can wear adamantine armor and take crits off the table for the DM, so the occasional time you can't crit a monster isn't so bad.I'm planning to run an adventure converted from 2e with old school Drow, who all have adamantine equipment.  So they'll be immune to crits because they're wearing the stuff, but then if they die it becomes party treasure, and if they feel that being immune to crits by wearing adamantine chainmail is better than wearing chainmail +1, that's a trade off they're willing to make and that's fine with me.Now if Hardy gets thrown on every big monster to the point we're back in 3.5 something like 35% of monster types were immune to crits (I recently checked, someone took offense to my hyperbolically saying 50% lol), that might not be so good.  OTOH I think the game could live without crits, personally, when WotC was talking about removing monster crits, I was for it, simply because under normal circumstances, I crit someone, wow whee, I get 7 more damage from my great sword.  A Giant Ape crits me with a rock, and I take 24.5 more damage...something about that doesn't seem right, since the DM already has way more chances to crit me than I do his monsters, lol.</blockquote>