Questions tagged [critical-hit]
For questions about critical hits, a mechanic used to indicate an extraordinary hit that is generally rewarded with an increase in damage dealt.
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Can a Vorpal Sword instakill Vecna with a natural 20 on the attack roll?
According to the instakill effect of a vorpal sword (emphasis mine):
A creature is immune to this effect if it is immune to slashing damage, doesn't have or need a head, has legendary actions, or the ...
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Do characters understand the concept of a "Critical hit"?
Can characters/NPCs understand what a crit (Nat 20) is? If so, can they tell that Adamantine Armor negates crits?
Context: I'm trying to figure out if there's any good reason Tier 4 PCs wouldn't bring ...
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Does Adamantine Armor protect your silver cord on the Astral Plane?
When using the spell astral projection, you gain a vulnerability: If your silver cord is severed, you die:
If the cord is cut--something that can happen only when an effect specifically states that ...
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In dnd 5e, can the Charger feat's bonus damage crit? [duplicate]
The wording in the feat's description is "gain a +5 to the attack's damage roll", while for crits we "roll all of the attack’s damage dice twice". This suggests to me that the ...
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Total damage from a critical hit with a fatal + striking eidolon unarmed attack
The summoner in our party has an eidolon with a 1d6 (fatal d10) primary attack.
Primary Attack: Choose from the following statistics for the more flexible primary attack.
1d8 damage (disarm, ...
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How do I calculate the probability for a critical hit, with an expanded critical range, and advantage/disadvantage?
I know the critical hit probability for normal critical range (natural 20) is:
normal: 0.05
advantage: 0.0975
disadvantage: 0.0025
But I don't know how to actually calculate this, and consequently, ...
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Does the Bloodshed Blade hit dice damage double on a crit?
Just clarifying for my own sake, but on page 111 in Bigby's, there's the Bloodshed Blade, which allows you to spend hit dice to add to the damage.
Invoking the Rune. When you target a creature with ...
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As a half-orc barbarian, how can you increase your chance of getting a critical hit? [duplicate]
I noticed that barbarians have a Brutal Critical feature, and half-orcs also have a similar trait (Savage Attacks).
As a half-orc barbarian, how can you increase your crit chance?
I'm looking for ...
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Over time, how does doubling dice on a crit compare vs having another action? [closed]
Basic 5e rules for crits say that you double the values rolled on dice. I'm playing with a homebrew idea where instead of doubling the damage dice you instead get another action, which can also crit. ...
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Would spiritual weapon (or similar) automatically critically hit a paralyzed target? [duplicate]
The paralyzed condition has the clause that
Any attack that hits the creature is a critical hit if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature.
Suppose I move a spiritual weapon (or Tentacle of ...
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Does the magic damage on swords double for a nat 20 [duplicate]
my barbarian has a frost brand longsword that does the common 1d8 and 1d6 of cold damage.
Me and my friends are new to d&d so we may be playing it be wrong but for the campaign I'm playing when ...
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Critical Hits on Oath of glory paladin Inspiring Smite is dice doubled?
When rolling a critical hit does all the dice associated with that attack double or just damage from the attack?
Inspiring Smite. Immediately after you deal damage to a creature with your Divine ...
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Does Fatal and/or Deadly apply when attacking a critical hit-immune target?
Critical hit immunity specifies
Immunity to critical hits works a little differently. When a creature immune to critical hits is critically hit by a Strike or other attack that deals damage, it takes ...
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Can I choose not to multiply my damage on a critical hit?
I am a Rogue with a -4 Strength modifier. For those attacks that add strength on damage, this is highly inconvenient. Currently, one of my natural attacks deals 1d2-4 damage. Since Sneak attack is ...
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How do I resolve a critical hit on an attack with a spell that doesn't do direct damage?
I mean spells like Ray of Enfeeblement - what happens if someone rolls critical to attack with them?
It doesn't do damage and instead forces target to pass a fortitude save to place condition on ...
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