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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3890874" data-attributes="member: 710">No, I am just considering that the "flavor text" of a critical hit should better not be related to striking vital organs or something like that. A critical hit can and should happen at any time in combat. But the "spectacular" hit that takes your enemy out of the fight will always be the strike that brings him down, regardless wether you dealt 1d4-1 points of damage with your dagger or 4d6+30 damage with your critical greatsword hit. (And the degree of the "spectacularity" depends entirely on how much you get your enemy into the negatives)By the way, thank you for reminding me of a great scene from Firefly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />(Though the scene could also be interpreted as Mal entering the ongoing fight between Rivers brother and the Cop/Bounty Hunter (?), and neither of them had a lot of hit points at this point. Though I more see it as Mal just having so much more experience that the Bounty Hunters dodge roll had no chance to succeed. Or it could have been a sneak attack. Or Mal just played a possibility to take down the Ord...)</blockquote>