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<blockquote data-quote="Heathen72" data-source="post: 453174" data-attributes="member: 7029">Morality ain't got nothing to do with itIt's not about morality, it's about the intended action. &quot;Best&quot; in this context means not &quot;most good&quot;(or even &quot;least evil&quot;) but rather &quot;utter success&quot; in the attempted action. To put it another way: A roll of natural twenty should represent the best possible result for what is being attempted and a fumble vice versa. It usually represents a critical hit only because in combat PC's are trying to do as much damage as possible to their opponent. For instance , in your post about the evil wizard and the vizier (which was very funny, btw) the heroes motive is unimportant. Their stated action was to attempt to hurt the vizier(presumably with the view to killing him) and when they rolled a crit they got the best possible result in the circumstances: namely 27 points of damage.If I was climbing a tree and rolled a 20 on my climb roll, I would hope that my G.M. would say &quot;You zip up the tree like a monkey and find yourself at the top in in a second,&quot; not &quot;Sorry dude, you just did 27 points of damage to the tree....&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Oh, and the party's actions were evil. Evil, evil, evil. It scares me to think that people believe terrorising a young girl and then killing her could be otherwise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Heathen72, post: 453174, member: 7029"] [b]Morality ain't got nothing to do with it[/b] It's not about morality, it's about the intended action. "Best" in this context means not "most good"(or even "least evil") but rather "utter success" in the attempted action. To put it another way: A roll of natural twenty should represent the best possible result for what is being attempted and a fumble vice versa. It usually represents a critical hit only because in combat PC's are trying to do as much damage as possible to their opponent. For instance , in your post about the evil wizard and the vizier (which was very funny, btw) the heroes motive is unimportant. Their stated action was to attempt to hurt the vizier(presumably with the view to killing him) and when they rolled a crit they got the best possible result in the circumstances: namely 27 points of damage. If I was climbing a tree and rolled a 20 on my climb roll, I would hope that my G.M. would say "You zip up the tree like a monkey and find yourself at the top in in a second," not "Sorry dude, you just did 27 points of damage to the tree...." ;) Oh, and the party's actions were evil. Evil, evil, evil. It scares me to think that people believe terrorising a young girl and then killing her could be otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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