I just picked up the game last week and it looks great. I ran a quick test drive session and a question about criticals came up.

Is a critical delivered automatically when there are boons equal to the weapon’s critical rating or must boons be spent to activate the critical, similar to spending boons on an Action Card.

For example, when attacking with a sword that has a CR of 3 and using Final Stroke of the Master, I roll four boons. Do I:

1. Get a critical because I have three or more boons, use two boons to invoke the two boon line on the action card adding +1 damage and critical (for a total of two critical wounds) and use the other two boons to recover a fatigue.

2. Spend three boons to invoke a critical on my sword and stare sadly at the unused boon.

3. Spend two boons to invoke the two boon line on the action card adding +1 damage and critical (converting one wound into a critical) and use the other two boons to recover a fatigue.

4. Spend two boons to invoke the two boon line on the action card adding +1 damage, wasting the +1 critical because I didn’t get a critical to begin with (making option 3 invalid) and use the other two boons to recover a fatigue.

I appologize for being long winded but this is one of the last niggling little things I need to clear up before I start running this for my regular group.

And any other advice would be most appreciated.

Boons always have to be activated, so the correct response to your question is 2 and 3. You either use three boons to activate the CR from the weapon, or you use two boons to activate the +1 damage and +1 critical, and the other two boons to recover a fatigue.

Hope this answers your question.

Cool! Thank you very much for the reply!