Magus spellstrike spell crits

[Ninjaofthesea]

If the weapon you are spellstriking with crits, does the spell also crit? Seems like it would since you can crit a touch and a ranged.

[Quantum Steve]

Jason says YES

[Scottbert]

That was from september during the first Magus playtest, does it still apply to the revised magus?

I thought the obvious way to adjudicate this was that the spell doesn't crit if delivered through a weapon, but has a 20/x2 crit as normal if delivered through a touch attack.

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Scottbert wrote:

That was from september during the first Magus playtest, does it still apply to the revised magus?

I thought the obvious way to adjudicate this was that the spell doesn't crit if delivered through a weapon, but has a 20/x2 crit as normal if delivered through a touch attack.

Yes, and everything with an attack roll has a 20/x2 crit rate unless otherwise specified (including touch spells).

This interaction with Spellstrike isn't new - it's been a part of D&D since 3.0 (where touch spells started being able to be delivered via a weapon attack - an unarmed strike in the core rulebook). Every other similar ability just follows the same pattern.