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Wow!Β Someone just rolled a Critical Miss!
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PC:My head isn't in the game!
*club*
DM: not anymore it isn't
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OMG - Critical Hit, friend!
Or, pardon my sword in your chest!
A long time ago, I adopted the critical hit tables designed by David Hargrave as a supplement to the DnD combat tables. They do provide a good balance. A high level character can become a steamroller, but the critical hit tables help even things out. If requested, I will put them up on my page.
John Buscema, the artist for Conan in the 70s for Marvel, once did a cartoon of what he imagined the funniest thing that Conan would ever see. It was of a soldier who was so clumsy, that he fell down and managed to stab himself with his own sword, killing himself. Dead soldier, and the normally dour Conan busting a gut in laughter. Very funny.
Can work the other way, too. Had a party of mid-level adventurers protecting a town, Land's End, from an evil mage and his goblin and orc henchmen. HeΒ approached the town on the back of a hyrda. The ranger prayed to Artemis, her patron as she shot her longbow. Natural 20. Had her reroll, so she got a 16, which made it a 24. Automatic critical hit. She rolled a 6 on a d6. With a 24, it was quintuple damage, making it worth 30 points. But then she got to roll on the critical hit table vs animals. Triple damage above that. Hydra got hit with 90 pionts, straight to the heart. The hyrda hadn't even reached the wooden palisade protecting the town. The mage was pissed. When the elf knight mage started in, the evil mage had to skedaddle and right quick about it, too. Classic hit.
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I would love to to see those tables, please? I've just started GMing some games with my kids, and find that I don't like some of the changes in the more recent editions of D&D. (And new tables are always interesting. ^_^)
I can see Conan laughing at fatal clumsiness.... And it sounds like you run some fun games. ^_^
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Okay, I've posted all 5 critical hits charts as JPGs. There are text versions, too, in the Journal section. Preface is "DnD - Critical Hits - " There are five entries, so if you want the text so you can format it how you like, it's available that way, too.
I'd like to think so. Been playing pretty much since 1975. I started the Skyra campaign with the year 2000. It's now 2106. I have a couple of maps posted in a separate folder, and some heraldry for a few done in another. Working on it piecemeal, between writing and the rare games I GM these days.
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Not sure if I will post Whimsy Wine next (100 different things can happen), Pixie Wine (nearly as crazy), or post the Special Ability tables.
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Like the old deck of of cards of random magic items, but better. (I don't remember its official name just now.) ^_^
Have fun!
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Deck of Many Things. The one I have is an amalgamation of several DMG versions.
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Sweet! I look forward to seeing it. ^_^
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Whimsy Wine is done and posted.
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This reminds me of the time I rolled a triple crit fail with a D20 while doing a spell in a local d20 game I play. Essentially it was off the DM's charts of fails so she simply said I had tried to teleport to the other dimension (it worked like the neither in Minecraft where distance in the dimension caused your trip to be much shorter in the overworld) but failed and the DM simply said the universe got destroyed. I then had to reroll.
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Sorry, the dice don't care about where your head is.
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Wow, very impressed that he somehow managed to roll a nat0 on a d20.
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