Critical Hit

When you make an Attack roll and get a natural 20 (the d20 actually shows 20), you hit regardless of your target’s Defense, and you score a threat. The hit might be a critical hit (sometimes called a “crit”). To find out whether it’s a critical hit, determine if the attack roll total would have normally hit your opponent’s Defense. If so, then it is a critical hit. If not, the attack still hits, but as a normal attack, not a critical.
A critical hit increases the attack’s Effect by 5. A critical hit against a minion allows no resistance; the minion is automatically dropped Helpless.
===Increased Threat Range===
Characters with the Improved Critical feat can score a threat on a natural result less than 20, although they still automatically hit only on a natural 20. Any attack roll that doesn’t result in a hit is not a threat.
See also:
* Called Shot
* Combat Statistics
* Critical Strike
* Improved Critical
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