List of sources of critical hit threshold reduction
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Normally only an attack roll of 20 is a critical hit. The following is a list of ways to make critical hits more likely.
Increasing the likelihood of critical hits
- Attacking with Advantage almost doubles the likelihood of rolling a critical.[1]
- Similarly, any effect that triggers a re-roll of an attack die will increase the likelihood of landing a critical hit, including:
Reducing the threshold for critical hits
These effects reduce the threshold required for a critical hit by 1.
Equipment
Weapons
Unseen Menace (while the weapon is 
)
Bloodthirst → Improved Critical
The Dead Shot → Improved Critical
Knife of the Undermountain King → Organ Rearranger
Duellist's Prerogative → Elegant Duellist (while off-hand is empty)
Cloaks
Shade-Slayer Cloak → Stealthy Critical (while 
)
Armour and headgear
Covert Cowl → Covert Critical (while Obscured)
Dark Justiciar Helmet → Covert Critical (while Obscured)
Sarevok's Horned Helmet → Deathbringer's Sight
Conditions
(critical threshold is reduced by 2, available only in the The Dark Urge origin)
Consumables
Class features
Feats
(spell attacks only)
Illithid Powers
(Target's critical threshold is reduced by 5, but it is also vulnerable to all damage)
Guaranteed critical hits
There are also several ways to guarantee a critical hit.
- By applying
(e.g. from any of 
, 
) (attacks must be made from within 
Melee: 1.5 m / 5 ft 
(once per Long Rest)
Killer's Sweetheart (once per Long Rest after killing a creature)
(against 
creatures)
(once per Long Rest after consuming the +3 bonus from 
)- By applying
(e.g. from any of 
, 
) (attacks must be made from within - By applying
(from 
) (once per Short Rest, for the next attack made from within
