Doug [he/him]

Yes but he serves a different community

No, but I’m gonna run his code anyway

Sorry if it came off like I thought it was your first time. We all screw up sometimes, like I did with that comment lol

I’ve been playing since 2e as well. I took it that the rest of the table had different ideas and goals than you did. That’s almost never fun as I’m sure you know.

I’m glad there were some good times

Maybe!

Well that sounds like a great reason to look at Pathfinder 2e

That sounds like a few problems and there should at least be a discussion with the group about expectations before future campaigns.

But the inverse of a skill based build getting a lot of lucky combat rolls and outdoing the combat character is possible in the book. A good DM can and should mitigate skill crits but is kinda stuck on combat ones.

Regardless, I’m sorry you had a crap time.

Does a crit on an attack automatically kill the attacked thing? Of course not, that would be absurd. Depending on the rules you’re using it either does max damage, or bonus damage. It also often is a successful hit even if the attacker would not successfully hit. It is the best outcome the attacker could hope to accomplish.

A crit success at a skill check is no different. You can not expect to convince the Dwarven kingdom that you, a human, are the long lost prince with a deception check any more than you can expect a first level rogue to sneak attack any noticable damage onto the Tarrasque. But you can score a hit, or convince them you believe you are the long lost prince and that maybe they need to find out why.

It sounds like what you think a crit anything is is pretty dumb. Success doesn’t begin and end at accomplishing the entirety of your goal with a thing. If it did we’re still going to have to make every combat crit a kill shot.

Not at all. A crit is never doing the impossible, it’s doing the best possible. A crit at first level isn’t going to one shot an elder dragon, but you’ll hit it and do some damage.

A crit trying to lift the castle’s giant, wrought iron portcullis isn’t going to lift it, but it just might help you realize one of the bars isn’t as firmly connected as it ought to be…

In other words of what others have already said, a crit skill check isn’t making the impossible possible, it’s the best possible outcome you could hope for. Just like how a crit on a thing you can’t hit is the best you could hope for. You don’t instantly kill it, you just get a very good shot in.

You don’t convince the guard to let you go free, but maybe you manage to get him to believe you’re inept enough that he can go to the other room and have a nap.

There’s no crits on skill checks in the book. Play how you want

They do and I’d love to have a better method available to us.

However the meme is a little off.

One party doesn’t give a fuck about you, the other actively wishes you harm and works to that end.

They’re not “my team” but they’re well past “the lesser of two evils” given the other one.

I didn’t want to come off dismissive asking how often you’re talking about those specific kinds of plants but maybe it’s a relevant question after all lol

I think you and I have very different experiences. I rarely see that kind of correction if ever.

When you’re in a public space you never know when your words are being consumed by an ESL speaker. I think the best approach is natural yet accurate. They’re going to encounter contractions when dealing with native speakers, but the difference between it’s and its, for example, can be tricky so try to use them as taught.

Spelling mistakes can absolutely be an issue. It’s already hard enough to figure out English spelling without native speakers making it worse. Add on to that the difficulty in any added language of working out near homophones, let alone actual homophones.

I knew someone who was pretty decent with English as their third language but had trouble keeping Texas and taxes straight. I know another guy who is American and uses no in place of know. That one threw me for a while before I figured out what he was trying to say.

I will admit, I do like that “technically” the plural for octopus is “supposed to be” octopods (pronounced like oc-tip-o-dees) but that’s a fun “fact”, not a correction I’ve ever tried to make.

90+% of the time you get common mistakes. Should ofs, they’re - there - their confusions, apostrophes for plurals.

The kind of thing that confuses ESL speakers. The decent thing would seem to be to try and stick to the way it’s taught rather than go with the “it doesn’t matter” route when it absolutely matters to some.

I’m juggling 3 languages

We Americans like to forget that anyone might have any trouble understanding English especially in cases of polyglots.

I don’t know which is your native tongue but from this comment it looks like you’re doing a fine job.

Except that it would be “they should, of course,”.

Also that person may have known what you meant, but another might not and may have any number of reasons for not asking.

Better communication skills are a worthwhile goal and there’s no good reason to not learn and grow.

Not the 1865 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland which also has the same credentials but, as you can see, is earlier?

Still not sold on calling all of it Isekai regardless, but at least check your own facts

We don’t have an Isekai genre. We have an Other World subgenre of fantasy that Japan made another name for and weebs apply to everything similar.

Even if there were any Republicans at fault, and obviously there can’t be because they’re always so great at their job of serving the American people. Even if there were bad ones they’d be the ones in other areas that I can’t do anything about. Everyone I vote for is always the best candidate and does everything right.

It’s those other ones. They’re the problem.