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Oh wow, I hadn't thought of using Fire Stance to further reduce Crit severity. I thought you'd gotten it wrong so I went to check the manual and yup, it says "when you make a check", while I thought it would say "when you make an Attack action". I think it must be a mistake, no? Maybe it should only apply to Attack/Strike actions or at least not be used in resist checks. I'll definitely be houseruling this.

20 minutes ago, MaoYoruichi said:

Oh wow, I hadn't thought of using Fire Stance to further reduce Crit severity.

I had to learn this the hard way while fighting an Oni. I was really proud to my Critical Strike and really thought that it would save the party, but then the Oni made a 9k6 Fitness (Fire) check with each Strife also counting as a Success (other than pumping the Oni towards Hateful Talon Swipe aka the "GG no RE Attack"), scored something like 9 Successes against the Deadliness 6 of my naginata, and all hope was lost again .