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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 1290761" data-attributes="member: 14403">That's a tricky one.  I'll first say that it is your game.  If you want Androids to be suseptable to critical hits then so be it.To break it down I'd say that androids should be suseptable since they do indeed have critical parts in their center mass (chest) that if destroyed could stop the whole.  Golems are animated by magic and so have no critical parts.  Their animation is provided by magic alone, no gears or anything else to destroy.  Undead similarly are kept going by magic (negative energy).  If you run a zombie through with a piercing weapon it isn't going to hurt it a whole lot.  If you want detail I'd suggest that instead of doubling or tripling damage you could create a hit chart and apply penalities to different actions based upon where the critical hit landed on the critical-immune creature.  If you lop off a zombie's leg it won't hurt it per se but it will impare it's mobility.  Lower it's movement by 75% as it then would have to crawl around after it's attackers.  A zombie moving at 25% of it's speed certainly would be easy to avoid and would also take penalties for being prone.  A head shot could destroy the head or at least the eyes.  Apply blinded penalties to it.  The same would work for Golems.  If you wanted to get REALLY technical you could rule that only slashing or bashing weapons could crit these creatures as it would be pretty hard for an arrow or rapier to take a zombie's leg off.  Only a piercing critical to the head would have any effect.</blockquote>

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