3 nat 20s is an insta kill?
It would have been cool, but a crit is not a bad way to enter.
It will get you some respect from Khayal (Khayal always respects a good crit, he is actually built around them, alas his rolls have not been helping and he has only landed 24 in 7 levels.)
Yazi, I am not sure how many. Could do a search later though.
I have been keeping track of Khayal's at the bottom of his profile. Trying to get 50 so I can take the campaign feat relentless butcher.
Nasir, a good first impression at least ;)
So apparently the 3 nat 20 house rule was so common it was even mentioned in the DMG.
Actually my real-life table Pathfinder has:
1. Possible Crit
2. Confirm
Because at the time we also had "crit failures". Then the GM found some tables and even some "Critical Hit" and "Critical Miss" playing card decks, and the players had to call a time-out on the GM because our weapons were getting seriously broken, players hitting other players, etc.
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I've used the crit/fumble for amusement before but wouldn't recommend it for a full game (seriously, how is doing x2 damage but breaking your weapon and taking STR damage a a good thing?!?!)
My Live group uses the Crit>Maul>Insta-Kill rules to make getting those extra 20s mean something (especially given the rarity of it occurring), rather than them being wasting.
I might survive this round after all. That giant took quite a beating, if not, it was a heck of a way to go out.
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Yazi I did a search through the gameplay thread for your crits.
I found crits on the following dates:
July 10th 2014
Aug 29th 2014
Sep 29th 2014
Jan 11th 2015
May 29th 2015
July 7th 2015
July 21st 2015
July 28th 2015
Sep 2nd 2015
Dec 28th 2015
I don't think I missed any but I can not say for sure.
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You have less crits but you deal as much damage on a normal hit as I do on a crit ;)
Your crits are just scary.
Khayal will get better when he can start adding effects to his crits. Relentless Butcher will be very nice. I am at 26 crits after that last attack and I anticipate they will come more often once I pick up improved critical next level. I might try to get my kukris effects that are based on crits as well.
Vorpal in and of itself is not a bad property, but it does not do much with my crits.
If it functioned off of every crit it would be a no brainer, but it only works if the initial crit is a Nat 20. With improved crit, that will only be on 1/6 of my crits. At +5 its pretty expensive too. Vorpal is realy good as a fury of blows weapon, many hits from a single weapon in one round.
Now if I came across one I would certainly use it ;)
Wounding in 3.5 was awesome, 1 point of con damage a hit, and only a +2 bonus.
Wounding in pathfinder is terrible, 1 point of bleed damage per hit (it does stack), at a +2 bonus???
An enemy has to live 3 more rounds in order for the bleed to out do the damage that would have been inflicted with just taking the +2 bonus. Even then it does not benefit from the +2 to hit.
Wounding is one of those things Pathfinder took the NERF bat to and kept on hitting beyond any usefulness. :(
Now if you expect your enemy to escape and they have no way to stop the bleed, it may be worth it but it is a bit circumstantial.
As an aside, I use to love the rapier of puncturing. Now they are terrible.
;) no worries, any good 3pp crit stuff you know off the top of your head?
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Meh, all I could really find that I thought might be of interest to you was Counterstrike and Glorius.
I kind of like counterstrike, that would be very Khayal-ish.
Thanks ;)
Please be aware, tomorrow and Wednesday I'm gonna be in trainings all day so my ability to post during the day will be severely limited. I should be back to normal on Thursday.
Enjoy (as best you can).
Thanks for the notice, Hajar. Unbeknownst to my players, your GM's primary means of transportation has been in the repair shop, off-and-on, for the last 2 weeks. Which is why my postings have been all over the place. But now the Volkswagen Jetta TDI is back, it's almost at 200k miles, and should be good to go for another few months.
But my wallet took 3d6 x 100 damage, ouch!
I wish getting gold in real life was as easy as these stories.
Hello everyone! Just saying HI. Been following the game and so glad you are still having fun and found a cool new player! I'm not sure I've ever seen so many rounds in PBP before as that last battle...
Hope you had a blessed Christmas and super happy new year. Great additional apologies for having to duck out a few months back - Hajar you are right... it seems every winter my company asks me to tackle a new monster. This time, setting up MRP for the whole damn company!
Anyway. Just saying hi, and wishing blessings and thanking you all for the good reading as I eavesdrop - keeping lines open for future games!
Love, Paige
I hope you had a merry Christmas as well :)
I hope you had a merry Christmas as well :)
Ditto.
We've had cases where separate people didn't get that "tab update" for days at a time.
Ok, wish list time!
When you say "wish list time", do you mean we should let you know if there are items we want to find/buy? The main one for Bartan is a belt of Con, but he can't afford it until we are paid a bit more... I have 2948 gold at the moment after buying a few scrolls, and so will need about 1100 more.
I thought we did a detailed loot thing somewhere in this thread where Bartan DID get his Belt?!
The plan was for Nasir to buy the scimitar from the group at selling price. Give me a bit I will add up the worth of all the goods we are selling.
Nasir/Yazi if you want to RP the purchase of the +1 fire outsider bane frost scimitar in the gameplay thread it may be best to do there.
we need to determine the worth of the following:
- finely-worked obsidian unholy symbol of Rovagug
- a brilliant-cut black gem on a delicate silver chain
- an ordinary-looking ring with a set of jaws (symbol of Rovagug) holding the tiny citrine gemstone in place
Hajar would vehemently oppose selling Unholy Symbols. He'd rather buy them from the group from his "share" and destroy them.