My lance's critical damage is how much?

[Alzrius]

Okay, so my cavalier is using a lance and several feats to be a hard-charger when we encounter foes. However, I'm running into some issues when he confirms a critical hit.

A lance normally has a x3 critical multiplier. It does double damage on a charge, so presumably a critical on a charge would then be x4 damage (x3 normally, with the "double damage" clause kicking it up by one under the old "two doubles is a triple" rule).

However, I also took the Spirited Charge feat, which means that a lance attack while charging normally deals triple damage. So triple damage normally, with a x3 multiplier on a critical. I'm pretty sure this means the critical multiplier should be x5 when I critical on a charge, but I'm not sure.

What do you guys think?

[golem101]

Yup, you add 2 to the multiplier.
To put it in other words, from any added multiplied damage you should just take away "1" that stands for the normal damage dealt by the weapon and that's not calculated twice in a crit.

- x3 crit + x2 charge -> x4
- x3 crit + x3 spirited charge -> x5

[Evil Dave is Evil]

Alzrius wrote:

Okay, so my cavalier is using a lance and several feats to be a hard-charger when we encounter foes. However, I'm running into some issues when he confirms a critical hit.

A lance normally has a x3 critical multiplier. It does double damage on a charge, so presumably a critical on a charge would then be x4 damage (x3 normally, with the "double damage" clause kicking it up by one under the old "two doubles is a triple" rule).

However, I also took the Spirited Charge feat, which means that a lance attack while charging normally deals triple damage. So triple damage normally, with a x3 multiplier on a critical. I'm pretty sure this means the critical multiplier should be x5 when I critical on a charge, but I'm not sure.

What do you guys think?

Yes, x5 is correct.