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Old 03-24-2011, 10:14 PM   #7
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Default Re: Unlikely criticals, rationalize or house-rule

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Originally Posted by Edges View Post
I guess criticals come up in-game more than my gaming group feels they do in real life. We usually see around 4 crits per session total at the table. Out of those 4, it's not unusual for one to be either a crit success by a novice in some kind of contest with someone significantly more skilled (be it combat or whatever), or a crit failure by a master competing against some kind of novice. And it's not unusual for these crits to determine the outcome of the contest. The players are always pleased when they're on the winning end. And boy do they gripe about realism when they're not.
Realistically, there is no such thing as so much skill disparity that the master can be confident that a neophyte won't harm him in a deadly serious fight.

This is why grandmasters of martial arts or world champions of competative fighting sports don't really want to fight a random speed-phreak in a dark alley. A critical can mean it's all over.
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