Does This Belong in My Campaign? While the rest of this book assumes that you’ll be playing with the full critical hit tables and rules, you’ll find that this chapter can be completely disregarded with no ill effects. More than anything else in this book, critical hits are optional; if the DM and players don’t want them, the AD&D game works fine without them.

However, there is one thing worth mentioning: if monsters have to suffer critical hits, so do player characters. Otherwise, game balance quickly goes out the window.

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