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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 3889705" data-attributes="member: 13107">Straying into house rules, but I've been thinking that the ability to crit something should be knowledge and feat based.Lots of details to work out, but your ability to crit / sneak attack a particular target would depend on your knowledge of their anatomy.  Different creatures would have a skill level requirement to crit them -- BAB for creatures of your own type; Knowledge: Stonework for stone golems; Knowledge: Engineering for many other constructs.  That works even better if we treat "healing" as "Knowledge: Anatomy", and give dwarfs "Knowledge: Stonework" as a class skill (for example).Improved Critical could be an automatic benefit of a favored enemy ability, and you could take favored enemy (type) to allow criticals against foes of a particular type.And, particular foes could have a crit modifier that made it harder to achieve a critical against them.  The simplest that I can think of is an extra critical confirmation role, very similar to the miss roll for concealment.Letting this gel ... give particular creatures a "critical difficulty rating" and have an extra roll against this rating, modified by +1 for every 5 points of knowledge of the appropriate type and with a bonus due to favored enemy as well.</blockquote>