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<blockquote data-quote="Dan'L" data-source="post: 4909050" data-attributes="member: 68954">Right.&nbsp; It's just a little bit below that on p. 276, under the heading &quot;Miss&quot; where it explicitly states:&nbsp; &quot;If your attack roll is lower than the attack score, the attack misses.&quot;- The only exception found to this rule of &quot;miss&quot; is the aforementioned &quot;Automatic Hit.&quot;&nbsp; - There is nothing in Holy Ardor that says rolling doubles is a &quot;Hit,&quot; only a &quot;Critical Hit,&quot; and these have been shown to be explicitly separate, though related, game terms.- There is nothing in the section outlining the details of &quot;Critical Hits&quot; on PHB p. 278 which allows a critical hit to be an automatic hit or to apply it's maximum damage without also meeting the criteria for a &quot;Hit.&quot;Correct.&nbsp; But also somewhat irrelevant.&nbsp; More relevant is that &quot;critical hit&quot; is not synonymous with &quot;hit.&quot;&nbsp; The specific rules governing critical hits, found on p. 278, also reinforce that a critical hit is neither synonymous with &quot;automatic hit,&quot; nor with dealing damage on attacks that don't deal damage (such as an attack that fulfills the &quot;miss&quot; requirements.)-Dan'L</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dan'L, post: 4909050, member: 68954"] Right. It's just a little bit below that on p. 276, under the heading "[B]Miss[/B]" where it explicitly states: "If your attack roll is lower than the attack score, the attack misses." - The only exception found to this rule of "miss" is the aforementioned "Automatic Hit." - There is nothing in Holy Ardor that says rolling doubles is a "Hit," only a "Critical Hit," and these have been shown to be explicitly separate, though related, game terms. - There is nothing in the section outlining the details of "Critical Hits" on PHB p. 278 which allows a critical hit to be an automatic hit or to apply it's maximum damage without also meeting the criteria for a "Hit." Correct. But also somewhat irrelevant. More relevant is that "critical hit" is not synonymous with "hit." The specific rules governing critical hits, found on p. 278, also reinforce that a critical hit is neither synonymous with "automatic hit," nor with dealing damage on attacks that don't deal damage (such as an attack that fulfills the "miss" requirements.) -Dan'L [/QUOTE]

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