Help a noobie understand critical hits

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Outlaw

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• Critical hits are just normal hits with no defense roll
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This is pretty close to what actually happens even if you use the RAW. I think half the possible results on the Crit hit table are no extra effect and almsot all the rest are things that might be useful to a 145 pt character with ST no higher than 13 (i.e. what you had in Man to Man in 1986).

The 3x damage hits are 2 in 216 after the chances of rolling the Crit in the first place. Cumulatively that's no better than 1 in c. 2000. I've seen lots of crits but never a bonus damage one.