I have a seriouse problem with the crit fail and crit hit cards, the games I play in use them and they dont make sence to me, so im going to ask some questions and hopefully the movers and shakers of Paizo will give me some solid answers that make sence.
Lets start with casting Fireball 0% chance of crit failing, why? becouse no attack is made, ok so lets look at attack roll based spells.
Chill Touch
"A touch from your hand, which glows with blue energy, disrupts the life force of living creatures. Each touch channels negative energy that deals 1d6 points of damage. The touched creature also takes 1 point of Strength damage unless it makes a successful Fortitude saving throw. You can use this melee touch attack up to one time per level."
Ok so touch spells are cast and they grant you one or more touch attacks, and your not makeing a roll for anything other than makeing the touch attack so please explain how failing to aim the spell can generate events as bad as sending your charicter to another plane? or on the inverse side sending your opponent to another plane?
the very defineing part of crit failing is that your aiming for something and missing it so badly that it can break a weapon inhibit your ability to use the attack and so on, that kinda make sence to me but missing compleatly changes what the spell does??
IT seams to me that any attack spell or mundane falls into eather the ranged or melee catagory so i have to ask next...
Why is there even a magic option when every magic attack that forces a D20 attack roll is A. Melee touch or B. Ranged Touch (key words here is Melee and ranged)
Pathfinder is a game of suspention of disbeleif, but i have a hard time just hand waving this away as "its just how magic is".
Please tell me im not alone here.
Gashnal.
