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Renen
2013-05-18, 10:50 PM
What are the rules on PF regarding scoring a critical during a critical? Such as rolling a natural 20 on attack followed by a nat 20 on crit confirm?
Fates
2013-05-18, 11:04 PM
Yes, Pathfinder uses the same method for critical rolls as does D&D 3.5.
Renen
2013-05-18, 11:17 PM
No I mean, if I get a critical, and then while confirming it, get another critical. Do I stop at the one critical? Or do I keep making them (exploding dice)?
Fates
2013-05-18, 11:20 PM
No I mean, if I get a critical, and then while confirming it, get another critical. Do I stop at the one critical? Or do I keep making them (exploding dice)?

You stop at the first critical.
TuggyNE
2013-05-19, 12:05 AM
So far as I know, no 3.x-based system has exploding criticals, except as a houserule.
CTrees
2013-05-19, 07:45 AM
A natural 20 on your roll to confirm a critical hit is neat, but has no special function in-game, barring (fairly common) houserules.
StreamOfTheSky
2013-05-19, 10:54 AM
It seems cool till you realize how many times the DM has squads of mooks all shooting arrows at you and the sheer odds of him eventually getting a 1-in-400 chance of dual 20's and quite possibly auto-killing you.
Allanimal
2013-05-19, 11:28 AM
What are the rules on PF regarding scoring a critical during a critical? Such as rolling a natural 20 on attack followed by a nat 20 on crit confirm?

The 1st roll of natural 20 is not a crit. It is a crit threat until you confirm the critical with the 2nd roll.
The 2nd natural 20 is your confirmed critical.
So there is no "a critical during a critical" possible.
Sylthia
2013-05-19, 12:15 PM
Is it 2 or 3 20s in a row that's considered an auto-kill? I remember in the OotS comic on of the Hobgoblin minions auto-kills the Good Dragon that was about to kill Xykon and Redcloak, but I think it was one of the bonus comics in one of the books, which I don't have access to at the moment.
Keneth
2013-05-19, 01:24 PM
If anyone scores three consecutive 20s on an attack at our table, we use the rules for coup de grace. I figure a 1:8000 chance is worth the opportunity to kill the unfortunate target of the attack.

But there is no such default rule in 3.5 or Pathfinder.