Fiery Diamond
2017-09-20, 07:53 PM
Say you're wielding a weapon that has a critical threat range of 18-20. You have a total attack bonus of +5. You go against an enemy with AC 25+. What happens if you roll an 18 or 19? It's within your critical threat range, but not the normal range to hit. Do you roll to confirm the critical and get a regular hit if you fail to roll a 20 (and a critical if you roll a 20), like normal critical threats? Do you miss because it wasn't high enough to hit the AC, even though it was in your critical threat range? I haven't found any information on how this is supposed to play out.
If you use the former ruling, then increasing your critical threat range (by weapon choice, feat, and/or spell) also increases your likelihood to hit things that are hard to hit. Using a keen rapier, for example, would give you 30% chance to auto-hit instead of a 5% chance (miss chances aside).
If you use the latter ruling, then you seem to be going against the critical threat rules of automatically hitting if you threaten a critical.
Which is it?
If you use the former ruling, then increasing your critical threat range (by weapon choice, feat, and/or spell) also increases your likelihood to hit things that are hard to hit. Using a keen rapier, for example, would give you 30% chance to auto-hit instead of a 5% chance (miss chances aside).
If you use the latter ruling, then you seem to be going against the critical threat rules of automatically hitting if you threaten a critical.
Which is it?