CREDITS Designed & Written by: Brian Berg Editing: Skip Twitchell Cover Design: Brian Berg Layout: Jamie Wallis Artwork: ‘Violent Outburst’ Cover Art by Daniel Kamarudin, interior artwork by Ramon Lucha.
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possibility exists for horrific maiming and wicked injuries, clerics also have ways to treat such injuries and it will take a very honed and practiced hand to deal the most grievous of blows. Now get to reading and enjoy LAYING WASTE upon your enemies now and for years to come!
INTRODUCTION
How many times have you rolled a critical threat only to fail a critical confirmation check? It’s a let-down for certain. How many natural 20’s have you wasted in this manner? Do you think that you should be rewarded somehow for hitting your threat range?
Core concepts
These are the basic tenets to the Laying Waste system. The changes are significant but easy to learn and memorize. Each of these basic tenets will be explained in greater detail below.
Have you ever found yourself hating players or monsters wielding x4 critical items doing completely unrealistic amounts of damage? If you loved the GameMastery crit decks but found them a bit too random or inappropriate for your actions, read on, this book is for you!
Laying Waste presents a slick system to maximize the enjoyment of critical hits and fumbles in the Pathfinder RPG or OGL d20 systems. This system replaces both the standard critical hit and fumble rules, building upon the excellent Critical Hit and Fumble decks by Paizo Publishing, improving the mechanics and realism for game play, while still being simple and elegant enough to use with ease.
Now players and GM characters are rewarded for all of their threat rolls and for their level of skill! Critical hits will add a very fun element to the game now, rather than simply making combat go faster by doing huge amounts of damage. It is even possible to receive lasting wounds from particularly terrible fights, the sort of thing to show off over tavern ales and campsite fires.
Critical threats now do maximum base damage, and are called critical hits, regardless of whether or not you “confirmed,” scoring a deadly critical hit. Critical confirmation rolls have been removed, replaced by a severity check to add effects to your critical hits. Combatants must achieve at least a DC 20 on a severity check in order to gain a critical effect (a deadly critical). Deadly criticals can give the target light, moderate or severe wound effects, or even extra bonus damage, based mostly on the skill of the attacker (among other factors). Targets gain a save against debilitating effects, though if they do save successfully they trade the hindering effect for extra damage instead. You now cannot lose life or limb without failing a save.
CRITICAL THREATS
When a critical threat is now rolled, the damage is maximized, and it is called a critical hit. The critical hit severity is then resolved to determine whether or not the critical hit is a deadly critical.
The emphasis of this product is fun however, and not sheer destruction. While the
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SEVERITY CHECKS
SEVERITY CHECK
This is accomplished by rolling a d20 and adding the weapons critical modifier and the excess amount that the attack beat your target’s armor class, adding any additional modifiers and comparing that number to the severity DC’s (DC 20, 30 and 40 respectively).
Roll DC
