Critical damage
Here's the excerpt from the book. A critical hit means that you roll your damage more than once, with all your usual bonuses, and add the rolls together. Unless otherwise specified, the threat range...
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
That sounds right to me according to RAW. I've played in games though where the DM just has us add up all our damage and then multiply it.The RAW seems more logical since scoring a crit doesn't...
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
from the SRD:Quote:Multiplying Damage: Sometimes you multiply damage by some factor, such as on a critical hit. Roll the damage (with all modifiers) multiple times and total the results. Note: When...
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
I'm not sure if I or Archelino is right concerning bonuses(actually, his answer sounds more correct per the SRD--I was only going off what you wrote), but his emphasis brings up another good point...
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
Never mind."We will write unlesss to mean unless and only unless."-John Conway"[Georg] Cantor is a talentless hack."-Sean K. Reynolds"The more I read material like AU and IH and see the potential for...
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
I just went and found the text StMalice quoted in the SRD. The whole passage reads:Quote:A critical hit means that you roll your damage more than once, with all your usual bonuses, and add the rolls...
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
Quote:I'm not sure if I or Archelino is right concerning bonuses...Archelino is. Quote:Say you have a weapon that scores double damage against a certain foe. If you score a crit on that same foe you...
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
Arlechino has this one right -- there's various passages, and even an example, in the player's handbook that support him.Carthain."Eschew Obfuscation."
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
Say you have a weapon that scores double damage against a certain foe. If you score a crit on that same foe you can't include the double damage for foe type into the crit calculation.Only you can,...
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
Yes."When you multiply damage more than once, each multiplier works off the original, unmultiplied damage" actually means that you don't count multiples, you count extra rolls of the dice. So x2 means...
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
Quote:Multiplying Damage: Sometimes you multiply damage by some factor, such as on a critical hit. Roll the damage (with all modifiers) multiple times and total the results. Note: When you multiply...
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
Here's how it works, as I use things:Jack the Fighter hits with his longsword for 1d8+5 damage, Strength and Weapon Specialization combined.When he gets a critical hit, he deals 2d8+5 damage.If he...
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
Quote:Jack the Fighter hits with his longsword for 1d8+5 damage, Strength and Weapon Specialization combined. When he gets a critical hit, he deals 2d8+5 damage.Definitely a house rule, though. By the...
View ArticleRe: Critical damage
Yeah, this is addressed in the 3.0 FAQs. We'd been playing with the 1d8+5/2d8+5 version for years and just realized that this was wrong. I only noticed with Coup de Graces seemed surprisingly...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....