Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Crit Damage mechanics (question)

I was testing critical damage on the fighter’s battle master maneuvers and noticed that, on a crit, that specific damage roll is not rolling extra dice.

Doesn’t the critical damage mechanic makes you roll double dice for all damage that calls for dice rolls?

In example, divine smite rolls double dice on crits.
I don’t see why a battle master maneuver would not do the same. They are both class features.

Crit can either double the damage of what you rolled or roll double the dice. Most tables I played at rolled the usual dice and then doubled their values. I believe the game doubles the values of the dice.

Really? I actually think it does the opposite, I'm not sure but I think I've seen a crit 1 from a (1-1) + (2-1) instead of a (1-1)*2, you just broke me xD

I haven't played early access and there weren't a lot of crits in the footage of the final game plus you're not shown the proper dice screen as that stuff happens in the backgroud but I thought the dice values were doubled. At any rate the notion of rolling double the dice seems weird to me. Especially late game when for some builds you can be rolling a crap ton of dice even without crits...forget about rolling all that mess twice.

It does for most rolls. For that one specifically, it doesn’t.

A crit wielding the everburn blade even doubles the 1d4 fire damage.
Pally Smites are doubled.
Weapon dice dmg rolls are doubled.

Battle master maneuvers (1D8) are not. So it rolls only 1d8 on crit.

I figured it would be 2d8 on crits.

To clarify, on BG3 you roll double the dice.

That seems incredibly weird to me as most tables I played at just doubled the value of whatever we'd roll but neither method is inherently better or worse in a videogame where you don't have to take 5 minutes just rolling 20 dice and adding up everything. In game that stuff happens instantaneously and I don't have to remember all the bonuses and extra dice lol.

I'm a little rusty on the phb but it would seem based on your findings that BM maneuvers are bugged and they should be able to crit on BG3.


I think that's because the oficial way of D&D 5e is doubling dice but it has always been doubling damage before. So people used to previous editions just continue to use the double damage.

Yeah. You only see the final damage pop up, unless you pull up the combat dialog. Which is where I’m seeing what i described.