Pistol critical damage?

[Devistation]

When I use a pistol and crit I believe the damage die should be increased, in this case a 2d10 but it is rolling a 3d1058589

Any ideas?

[Trenloe]

When I use a pistol and crit I believe the damage die should be increased, in this case a 2d10 but it is rolling a 3d1058589

Any ideas?
It has the fatal d10 trait. https://2e.aonprd.com/Traits.aspx?ID=178

I've also moved this post to it's own thread as I this is not related to the R19 testing currently going on.

[Nyarly Dude]

When I use a pistol and crit I believe the damage die should be increased, in this case a 2d10 but it is rolling a 3d1058589

Any ideas?


Eh? That seems to be how Fatal should work. Think of it as a stronger version of Deadly. Deadly adds the specified damage die on a critical hit, while Fatal not only adds the die but also upgrades the regular damage dice.

So while if it were Deadly d10, the critical damage would be 2d6+d10... Fatal just makes it 3d10.

[Devistation]

Eh? That seems to be how Fatal should work. Think of it as a stronger version of Deadly. Deadly adds the specified damage die on a critical hit, while Fatal not only adds the die but also upgrades the regular damage dice.

So while if it were Deadly d10, the critical damage would be 2d6+d10... Fatal just makes it 3d10.

The increase of the damage die is correct. But I think it should only crit with one extra die, not two. the normal weapon damage is 1d6, upping to 1d10, add one extra hit die. I'm I reading this wrong?

(From Archive of Nethys) The fatal trait includes a die size. On a critical hit, the weapon’s damage die increases to that die size instead of the normal die size, and the weapon adds one additional damage die of the listed size.

[Trenloe]

FG rolls all of the dice for a critical hit - in line with the option on page 451 of the Core Rules. So the 2d10 is from the increased base damage die and a critical (double damage) plus the additional fatal dice.

[MaxAstro]

As Trenloe said, you can think of it as 1d10 (regular damage) + 1d10 (critical damage) + 1d10 (fatal damage).

[Devistation]

Perfect. Thank you