How (not) to Handle Crits in DND

When the Rogue rolls a natural 20 on the d20, don't panic as a DM. Just add more hit points to your DND 5e monster stat block! Just kidding... No matter how tempting it is, dungeon masters should let their players take the win when the dice roll in their favor with a crit unless it conflicts with fun at the table! Whether you play Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, or other TTRPGs, keep this in mind!

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[paraschauhan]

Did I say Adult Red Dragon? I meant Tiamat.

[llewelynshingler]

If you find that, like me, you're a chump who gives the party foes they mulch in seconds, pull a second phase out of your behind!

[bionic]

Add a couple zeroes. I'm sure the party wants a 3 hour combat

[Jrookus]

For major fights I just set secret conditions that the players need to reach to beat the big bad. They’ve found them out pretty quickly each time and they’ve felt smart doing it, so HP in major encounters has never been a significant problem

[Jovasjingels]

Did I say gnome oh I mean ………………
every god

[SirEliteGrunt]

When the players deal damage too fast so you “accidentally” add the damage to the hp instead of subtracting it.

[raylordofkhalah]

Hot take: one shotting boss monsters is the most fun a combat can have, and I'm the DM!

[DragonDeadite]

All my big bosses last a certain number of rounds before damage matters. Mini-boss? 2 rounds. Story arc boss? 3 rounds. Campaign boss? 5 rounds. Remove a round for every crit.

[xbane]

After level 10, I stopped keeping track of monster HP. I'll let them win when they're either dying or have used all their resources to make the battles appropriately long and Impactful.

[solidstehl]

Right?!?! Wait what... Did you say backstab? 😮... Skyrim stealth dragon hunting ftw pew pew lol😂

[gaelofariandel]

Honestly I look a bit more at how much damage the party has dealt to the BBEG and how they damaged it rather than just subtracting numbers off a pool. No big climax boss fight ends in 2 or 3 rounds at my table.

[MehDrac-]

My sister did a crit so she did 56 damage as a Rouge and she didn't even roll really high for damage 😭

[szegediadam]

The players realy wanted this fight to happen? Yeah give the boss some extra hp, to let all player hit the crap out of it.

But it's a "random miniboss"? Fuck it. After his quick and dirty demise all of it's goons around him get a frightened 2 condition because of this untimed butchery. :)

[kaneicosasrandom]

Ok. I'm not against add HP but

100?! Bloody hell, mate?! A 3th phase would be more merciful.

[davidpaikins]

I rolled 2 nat 20 on my attack... and I think the dm did that.. it was 2 nat 20 u can let me one shot it

[fplyon]

I'm telling my friends about u since ur so good but small

[mcmazingo]

Rather than giving a definite amount of HP, instead give a number of hits needed to kill.