Deflection spell question...self inflicted critical?


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Spell says...

You surround yourself in a whirling barrier of force that sends any attack that misses you hurling back toward its source. This applies to any melee or ranged attack directed against you so long as it uses an attack roll to determine whether or not it strikes you. If an attack misses you, the attacker must make a second attack roll against its own Armor Class, using all of the applicable modifiers of the original attack and if it hits, the attacker takes the attack's damage and suffers all the other consequences of getting struck with that attack. You cannot deflect attacks that miss you for any reason besides a failed attack roll (such as concealment). Similarly, you cannot deflect attacks that actually do strike you but simply fail to do any harm.

So you miss someone who is protected by the spell, roll a d20...and roll a natural 20 (or whatever the threat range is for your weapon). Can you critical yourself if you confirm the critical with a 2nd roll???


Yes.

Shadow Lodge

Indeed.

Scarab Sages

Nothing in the rules for Deflection change the standard rules for critical hit resolution.

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