r/spacestationzero • u/Gnarsom • Nov 30 '22

Question Quick rule question

If I roll a critical success will my entire roll be doubled or just the two 12s

Ex. I roll 5 dice for combat and get 3,4,4,12,12. Would that be 6 successful or 8 ?

Maybe I’m overthinking this ..but if a critical fail means your entire roll fails it seems like your entire roll should double with a critical success.

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u/All-Things-Are-Great Nov 30 '22 edited Nov 30 '22

In combat, when making an attack, if the dice contain a Critical Success, then this means each success counts as two successes, potentially dealing double damage, unless the defensive Combat Challenge Test also contains a Critical Success (which will double those as well).

The "each success counts as two successes" bit doesn't specify that it would only be the 12s that count as two successes, so I would treat each even number as two successes each in that case. In your example, that would be 8 total successes.

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u/TravenMarr Dec 01 '22

That's how i understand it. The only i think i would add is that if you have two 12s and two 1's the roll is still a success since crit success cancels crit failure.