Critical hit on a roll of 1. Excuse me, WHAT

[Morhem]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3020681614

Screen above. Other enemies in the encounter do critical after critical too, rolling 15, 16..
Don't I have to roll nat 20 for this in 5th edition? What in the 9 hells is happening here?

Karmic dice is turned off, and I ran 100% vanilla game.

Edit: It was due to being paralyzed, a condition ghouls can inflict.

[Metadigital]

Looks like either a bug or something to do with the karmic dice system.

Definitely not a 5e thing.

[Morhem]

Karmic dice is off.

[Ernasty]

lol i noticed this too

[Neialeis]

There do seem to be some strange issues with some enemies or actions. Like in Act 2 there are some medium size enemies that cannot be shoved at all. They have no trait or effect preventing it, but the game will report it as failing a DC of 0 against whatever you roll.

Add it to the pile I guess, lol.

[Morgian]

No, other numbers can be crits, not only 20. A fighter can crit on 19-20 and some items increase the range by 1. Luck of the far realms turns everything into a crit (for a fight), and there is a feat that males a 1 not an auto-fail I believe.
A crit on a 1 is kinda ridiculous and in probabilty a bug or caused by a mod.

You cannot shove the incorporeal, if you mean them.

[Settings]

Have to be a bug. 1 is meant to be an instant fail no matter what.

[donut32]

its just this games garbage combat. major mistake changing it from DOS2.

pure trash

[Pararos]

It's not a bug. If you read the description of the paralysed status, it says that attacks on the affected entity have 100% (yes, 100% even on nat 1) chance to hit and are always crits. Weird or not, that's just how it works.

[Seratin]

I notice you were fighting a ghoul, were they paralyzed at the time?

[RhodosGuard]

Originally posted by Pararos:

It's not a bug. If you read the description of the paralysed status, it says that attacks on the affected entity have 100% (yes, 100% even on nat 1) chance to hit and are always crits. Weird or not, that's just how it works.

You can even see the paralyzed Icon on Shadowheart in their screenshot

[Shozou]

That's normal mechanic.

[Morhem]

Might be. I already got trough this encounter, in like, 10 tries. Then I stepped on a repulsor mine, and decided to explore nearest chasm. Wanna know what's on the bottom? Quickload. And yea, forgot to save after the ghouls, fml