Do characteristics crit?

[peiro50]

Hi everyone, i'm new to the forum here.
We're a group of players from Italy and we're pretty confused of how Charateristics work.
We've been trying to look in the internet if we could find anything, but we actually found nothing.
The question is:
Does the charateristics modifier crit?

Example:
My character deals 1d6+STR (4)
He crits, dealing 2d6 + STR or STRx2?

We were also wondering if this applies to every other charateristic such as Wisdom, intelligence etc..

Best regards!

[Ediwir]

(1d6+STR)x2. Se la caratteristica è parte del tiro iniziale, viene raddoppiata come tutto il resto - furtivi, danni elementali, bonus di precisione, specializzazione del danno ecc.

In sostanza raddoppi sempre il danno totale. Se hai qualcosa che si applica solo al critico, quello non viene raddoppiato (es. Deadly) e viene aggiunto alla fine.

[Marc Radle]

Flagging for being in the wrong forum (this is the Third Party forum ...)

[Seisho]

you usually dont roll on the stat itself

for example - lifting heavy things would be an athletics check

since the challanges are usually (somewhat) level appropriate and there is neither prophiciency or level scaling on attributes you should avoid it probably, try to think what skill check would most likely apply

[Ediwir]

Seisho wrote:

you usually dont roll on the stat itself

for example - lifting heavy things would be an athletics check

since the challanges are usually (somewhat) level appropriate and there is neither prophiciency or level scaling on attributes you should avoid it probably, try to think what skill check would most likely apply

They're asking whether or not ability score modifiers to damage are doubled on a crit, such as with regular weapons, thief rogues daggers, or wizard cantrips.

It's a reasonable question if you're coming from 5e where that is specifically excluded.

[Seisho]

Ediwir wrote:

Seisho wrote:

you usually dont roll on the stat itself

for example - lifting heavy things would be an athletics check

since the challanges are usually (somewhat) level appropriate and there is neither prophiciency or level scaling on attributes you should avoid it probably, try to think what skill check would most likely apply

They're asking whether or not ability score modifiers to damage are doubled on a crit, such as with regular weapons, thief rogues daggers, or wizard cantrips.

It's a reasonable question if you're coming from 5e where that is specifically excluded.

didnt see the modifier part

but as general rule it seems like when a characteristic modifier adds to damage, it is doubled

can't speak about how 5e changes the perception of things, looked into the rulebook and was rather underwhelmed