Critical‐Strikes

A Critical Strike occurs when an already-Incapacitated character is hit. The module handles the entire flow automatically — from detecting the trigger to applying the final critical effect.

Triggers

A Critical Strike is launched when any of the following happen:

• An attack lands on a character whose fatigue already exceeds their endurance
• A player clicks ⚡ Spend 2 Opportunities on a damage card (see Opportunity Critical)
• A player invokes Void Defense – Don't Defend from a damage message (see Void Defense)

The Critical Strike Flow

Attack hits incapacitated target
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Module posts Critical Strike prompt in chat
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Target's player rolls Fitness (TN 1)
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Module detects the completed Fitness roll
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Calculates severity reduction (1 + bonus successes on success, 0 on failure)
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Looks up final critical effect on the effects table
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Applies the effect to the actor
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Posts mitigation result card in chat

Severity Calculation

Base Severity   = Weapon Deadliness
Reduction       = 1 + Bonus Successes (on Fitness success) | 0 (on failure)
Final Severity  = max(1, Base Severity − Reduction)

The final severity maps directly to the L5R5e critical effects table.

Chat Messages

Critical Strike prompt

💀 CRITICAL STRIKE! Honorless Ronin delivers a critical strike to Daidoji Moji! Daidoji Moji was already Incapacitated when struck! ⚠️ Roll for Critical Strike consequences!

Mitigation result

After the Fitness roll resolves, the module posts a summary showing the calculation and the applied effect.

Shattering Parry

After the mitigation result card appears, the target may invoke Shattering Parry to reroll all mitigation dice. See Shattering Parry.