066 Critical Hits and Fumbles in RPGs

Critical hits and fumbles in tabletop roleplaying games, how do they enrich your game or can they be just plain silly? Some systems have critical hits and fumbles built into it. Most of us may have taken it upon ourselves to incorporate such a system into our house rules. Dungeon Crawl Classics make critical hits and fumbles dynamic with a few different tables, while Paizo has it’s critical hits card deck. We elaborate a bit on these mechanics and flavor text.

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