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[Knightofargh]

Kindly place discussion of house rules into this thread.  New house rule ideas would also go here.

[Knightofargh]

I'd like to get a consensus.  Do you as the players wish to use the RAW critical success/failure mechanic?

Per 7.1.6 you would roll a d20 with the first attempt to use a skill, a 1 denotes a critical failure while a 20 denotes a critical success.  Effectively you have a 10% chance of either occurring per roll, combat crits go on a specific chart from 7.10.5.

Otherwise, if you want a critical success mechanic how would you like it to be set mechanics wise?

[Juniantara]

I would go with all ones a critical failure and all the top number on the dice a critical success - I like for them to be fairly rare so they feel really epic. With rare ones like that though, critical successes and failures should be epic when they do occur.

[Darrian Wolffe]

I absolutely do NOT want to use the RAW Critical mechanic - a flat 5% either way is idiotic.  I just don't know what else to use, though; Brett's suggestion mathematically reduces the odds of critical successes the more dice you devote to something, which is counterintuitive at best.  We're already rolling so many dice, I don't really want to roll any more.

Could we just add a "hero point" system that allows us to choose to spend an extra d8 (or so) on a roll.  If you succeed on the roll, and one of your normal dice matches the result of the d8, it's a critical success.  If you fail the roll, and one of your normal dice matches the result of the d8, it's a critical failure (ALTERNATE: if the d8 comes up a 1 and you fail the roll, it's a critical failure).  This puts the risk in the player's hand; you don't HAVE to expose yourself to the risk of a CritFail be simply not spending the "Hero Point"...but you have the potential to get the critical success with the roll by assuming that risk.  Say, 1 Hero Point per every 5 full points of Physis, refreshing by 1 point at the top of each session, totally refreshing between adventures, and limited refreshing when the GM feels like awarding it for doing cool stuff?

[Knightofargh]

Hero point mechanic is in play. I'll update the house rules thread from home, not even trying from my phone.

Hero Points are added 1 for every 250 total CDP. You can add a d8 to your roll at player discretion. This is a PC only attribute, it's part of what makes the PCs special. A result of 1 on the Hero Point die is a critical failure, while a result of 8 is a critical success. Points refresh at a rate of 1 per session, total refresh between scenarios and when thematically appropriate.

As in SR you may also permanantly burn points for Hand of God.