Gameplay Design Patterns wiki, “Critical Hits”

Cite as: Gameplay Design Patterns wiki, “Critical Hits”
Original: https://www.gameplaydesignpatterns.org/index.php?title=Critical_Hits
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Credit: The Gameplay Design Patterns collection, maintained by Staffan Björk and Jussi Holopainen, who began it in Patterns in Game Design (2005). The page history credits Staffan Björk with the current revision.
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The Gameplay Design Patterns wiki defines critical hits as "Attacks that do significantly more damage than others, or have other special effects," made by giving an ordinary hit a small chance to become critical.	`lead and first paragraphfirst paragraph`	Wiki