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In many games there is the concept of a “Critical Hit”, literally, a hit that is critical (in that it causes severe damage.) In Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition, a Critical Hit is scored by rolling within a weapon’s “threat range” when rolling to hit, and then making a followup roll which also would normally be a hit. In World of Warcraft, your equipment and statistics generate a percentage of the time when you will deal a critical hit, causing extra damage.
Being the gamers that we are, we believe that there are Critical Hits in life. Not just when you accidentally hit your cousin in the crotch with a paintball. There are games, comics, and movies that are Critical Hits. They are also hits with the critics (us.)
Critical Hits is devoted to bringing you information on everything we view is a critical hit. We are a daily column blog covering rpgs, board games, video games, comic books, webcomics, movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy novels, and whatever else strikes our fancy.
Features
Inquisition of the Week: Our weekly inquest into what our audience is thinking about in the world of Critical Hits.
YouTube Tuesday: Every Tuesday we feature a gaming-related YouTube video for your viewing pleasure.
Random Encounters: Our resident artist Bartoneus brings you a fresh comic on the web about gaming along with his own unique commentary.
Critical Threats: Resident game designer The Game brings you his personal design aesthetics and game design advice.
Librarian’s Tome: Elena99 presents science fiction and fantasy book reviews.
Webcomic Weekend: We delve into the archives of webcomics to find the best strips and present them so that they are not buried forever in archives.
Bosses
TheGame: Dave, Editor in Chief
Son of science fiction author Jack L. Chalker and amateur game designer, Dave reviews tabletop games both euro and rpg.
Bartoneus: Danny, Managing Editor
Danny was raised in the mountains, which explains his catlike agility and ninja skills. He also never has trouble making left turns. His beat is the World of Warcraft scene, along with whatever other video games are taking up his time.
Elena99: Denise, Chief Reviewer
The frozen north of Canada may have kept her inside, but that didn’t stop her from reading lots of books and playing lots of rpgs. Denise writes the bi-weekly Librarian’s Tome book review column.
Minibosses
DarthCthulhu: Josh, Columnist
Powered by dark science and dark magic alike, he is nonetheless afraid of spoons. Josh covers tech news and over the top rants.
DrScotto: Scott, Columnist
Scott one day hopes to make a great laydown against Phil Helmuth using his own chips, then show his hand to make him tilt. He writes about Poker and technology.
joshx0rfz: Josh, Columnist
Josh was never born, he is, was and always will be. He is the solution to the Prime Mover dilemma. He plays video games entirely too much and his opinion to knowledge ratio is out of whack. Meaning, too much opinion, not enough knowledge.
GATO: Gato, Aggregator Robot
His name is GATO, he has metal joints. Beat him up to earn fifteen silver points!
Journalistic Guinea Pigs: Pepper & Paprika, Fact Checkers
Our rodent pinnacles of journalistic integrity, who ensure that nothing we report is ever wrong nor spelled incorectlly.
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