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[–] jagermo@feddit.org 42 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They do in PF2e. And it rocks

[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

πŸ€“ Pedant mode activated πŸ€“πŸ€“ 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. πŸ€“πŸ€“πŸ€“πŸ€“πŸ€“

[–] ZombieZikeri@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 8 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.