Suppose my character casts True Strike, then fires his crossbow the next round and rolls a natural 20. Would the +20 bonus for the True Strike spell apply to the critical confirmation roll, since it applied to the hit roll that generated the critical threat? It seems to me it should, but I'd appreciate a citation, or a ruling from the designers if not such citation exists.
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Critical Hits: When you make an attack roll and get a natural 20 (the d20 shows 20), you hit regardless of your target's Armor Class, and you have scored a “threat,” meaning the hit might be a critical hit (or “crit”). To find out if it's a critical hit, you immediately make an attempt to “confirm” the critical hit—another attack roll with all the same modifiers as the attack roll you just made. If the confirmation roll also results in a hit against the target's AC, your original hit is a critical hit. (The critical roll just needs to hit to give you a crit, it doesn't need to come up 20 again.) If the confirmation roll is a miss, then your hit is just a regular hit.
Yes. The true strike would apply to the confirmation as well.
Yes. TS applies to one attack.
The Confirm Roll is part of the original attack, it is not a separate attack.
I've never seen somebody who played this any differently.
Cool! Thanks a lot.
And likewise if you have any effects letting you take the best of 2 rolls (or the worst of 2 rolls),
TS would apply to both (or all) rolls, because they are all the same ATTACK.