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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 5941130" data-attributes="member: 40176">I voted against the concept for two reasons.First, I think critical hits are an exciting reward for exceptional rolls that everyone enjoys, so I wouldn't want to see entire classes of opponents become virtually immune to them.Second, I think heavy armour should protect against more than just critical hits.That would tend to bring us back to DR, which has its own inherent problems, so let me suggest an alternative: All physical attacks against heavy-armoured characters have their damage dice reduced one size.So a 1d10+5 damage roll becomes 1d8+5, or 2d6+3 becomes 2d4+3.This would take some getting used to at first, but I think people would become accustomed to having a second set of damage dice set aside for heavy-armour targets soon enough, after which it shouldn't significantly slow down play.</blockquote>