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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8771765" data-attributes="member: 50987">Well yeah.  The beauty of the linear distribution d20 is that critical hits (and failures, if you use them) are just as likely as any other result.  Switching to a bell curve distribution will give more reliable results (you're 20x more likely to roll a 12 than you are a 3), so crits are going to be a lot less common.Critical hits aren't really compatible with bonded accuracy.  I get the feeling the whole point of critical hits was to break bonded accuracy.Sorry, I'm getting off-topic.  This isn't the thread for dice curves and probabilities.  This is about comparing real-world athletes to those puny, wimpy D&D dragons.</blockquote>