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By wording of the spell:

"Make a spell attack."
"You deal 12d10 damage, and the target must attempt a [basic Fortitude save]."

If you hit with you spell attack:

Step 1) Target rolls save:
Since this is a [basic save]:

For target's save:
Critical success -> No damage
Success -> Half-damage
Failure -> Full Damage
Critical Failure -> Double damage

But:

"On a critical hit, treat the save result as one degree worse"

Step 2)

For you spell attack roll vs target's AC:
Critical Success -> Move (step 1) counter 1 step down.
Success -> Calculate damage using above step 1 table.

So we have the final permutations:

Critical success(save) & Success(spell attack) -> no damage
Critical success(save) & Critical Success(spell attack) -> Half-damage
Success(save) & Success(spell attack) -> Half-damage
Success(save) & Critical Success(spell attack) -> Full Damage
Failure(save) & Success(spell attack) -> Full Damage
Failure(save) & Critical Success(spell attack) -> Double damage
Critical Failure(save) & Success(spell attack) -> Double Damage
Critical Failure(save) & Critical Success(spell attack) -> Double Damage

Hope that helps :)

Grid distance diagonally goes by 5-10-5-10-etc

The part of the sentence you cut:
"Unlike with measuring most distances, 10-foot reach can reach 2 squares diagonally"

Sets an exception.

And then continues to explain that AFTER the exception, Reach is measured like Range.

Hence 25 and not 30

Yes ,thats a more clear explanation :) first two diagonal squares for reach only consume 10ft of reach.An exception to the general rule.

Your explaination doesn't work, as it would need 15ft. reach to get to 3 squares.

So, yes, ClanPsi, there is a mistake, it should be 30ft. for 4 squares. 5ft. for first square, 10ft. for 2 squares, 20ft. for 3 and 30ft for 4.

But it does not say anywhere that you can not reach 3 diagonal squares with 15ft of reach. The statement says that with 20ft of reach you can reach 3 diagonal squares, not that you need 20ft to do so.

Hello,

I think that the numbers are ok, but the wording not so good.

It should say "remaining reach above 10 feet is measured normally".

So someone with 25ft reach only "uses" 10 feet of reach for the first two diagonal squares and 15 feet of reach for the two other, for a total of 4.

It would be absurd to be at a disadvantage having greater reach, i.e. using more reach for the first two squares than someone having just 10ft reach.