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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Artoomis" data-source="post: 4907038" data-attributes="member: 111">Well, no - you are rolling a number pair, not a number.  An entirely new creation for Holy Ardor.I can readily agree, though, that it can be thought of either way and that there is no 100% entirely correct reading based upon RAW only.My opinion is that the preponderance of the evidence suggests that it applies even if the number pair does not have a result that would have been high enough to hit.  This is based upon the actual language (which omits any possibility of a "possibility" of a critical hit) as well as the inclusion of the mention of a [air of ones being a miss, which truly only has actual meaning if any pair represents a critical hit as opposed to a possible critical hit.Still, even accepting all the above, that merely makes it more likely than not that the rule is meant to be an automatic critical hit as opposed to a critical hit only if the number on the underlying number pair would have hit anyway. My conclusion?  Any matching pair of dice, other than a pair of ones, is an automatic cortical hit whether the number on the dice would have hit or not.  The case for this, however, is far from overwhelming; it is merely somewhat stronger than the case against.This is one of those cases where a FAQ entry would be very useful.</blockquote>