(in D&D at least)

  • Sleepless One@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago
    🤓 Pedant mode activated 🤓

    🤓 Erm, ackshually, a natural 20 only increases the degree of success by one. This means, for example, if someone rolls a 20 on an attack roll, the total with modifiers is 28, and the defender’s AC is 30, the attack will be bumped up from a failure to a normal success, not a critical success. 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

    • ZombieZikeri@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      To be even more pedantic: the original poster’s meme says skill checks don’t crit, not that nat 20s on skills are a critical success. Most skill checks in PF2e have a critical success tier. Thus jagermo was correct when they said that skill checks do crit in PF2e.

      That being said, you are correct about how the whole tiering mechanic works and a nat 20 not always being a critical success. :)

    • s12@sopuli.xyz
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      Just because a Nat 20 isn’t necessarily the cause, doesn’t mean that skill checks don’t crit.