Power Attack + Critical Hit

[swordsmasher]

Is the extra damage from power attack feat multipled when a critical hit is scored?

 

[Lorgrom]

yes

 

[CronoDekar]

Yup, anything that is not extra dice (like from sneak attack or the flaming enhancement) is multiplied.

 

[swordsmasher]

So if I am wielding a two handed weapon with a crit multiplier of x2, and I power attack for 5, my extra damage becomes 20? (5x2 for two hander, then x2 again for crit).

 

[Endur]

So if I am wielding a two handed weapon with a crit multiplier of x2, and I power attack for 5, my extra damage becomes 20? (5x2 for two hander, then x2 again for crit).

Yes. If your base damage is 2d6+10, then a crit with a great sword will be 4d6+20. Of course, its much harder to crit with power attack, since the penalty (-5 in this case) also applies to the chance to confirm the critical hit.

 

[nittanytbone]

Say you're using True Strike to (gurantee a) hit, and you happen to get lucky and roll a crit threat. Does the +20 apply on the roll to confirm the critical?

 

[Caliban]

Say you're using True Strike to (gurantee a) hit, and you happen to get lucky and roll a crit threat. Does the +20 apply on the roll to confirm the critical?

Yup. The confirmation roll is part of the same attack.

 

[swordsmasher]

Time for my Eldritch Knight to take a level in barbarian darnit! LOL

Turn 1: Draw +2 Keen Greatsword
Turn 2: True Strike, Rage
Turn 3: Charge, and Power Attack for 5
Turn 4: Pick up my opponent's severed head from the ground and spit in its eye

lol

 

[KarinsDad]

Yup. The confirmation roll is part of the same attack.

Really?

Your next single attack roll (if it is made before the end of the next round) gains a +20 insight bonus.

It's not your next attack, it's your next attack roll.

A confirmation roll is an attack roll, but it is not your next one. It is the one after that.

PHB page 140

To find out if it's a critical hit, you immediately make a critical roll - another attack roll with all the same modifiers as the attack roll you just made.

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

It's pretty cool, but not all that common.

A sufficiently angry barbarian can make short work of a tough encounter with a lucky critical hit. I've seen 60+ damage from a 6th level character before.

Not often that you need to find the Massive Damage rules in D&D at those levels.

EDIT: Your own quote doth you wrong, KD, since you forgot to bold the pesky "with all the same modifiers" part in there.

--fje