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Just a quick question:
I always assumed the damage bonus from Power Attack was doubled, since it's neither precision damage, nor an extra damage die granted by a weapon.
However, the Mythic Power attack feat explicitly states that the bonus damage IS doubled on a crit.
Can anyone clarify?
In addition, the bonus damage from this feat is doubled on a critical hit, before it’s multiplied by the
weapon’s critical multiplier.
Normally the extra damage from PA is multiplied by the weapon's critical multiplier, just like damage from Strength etc. With Mythic PA it's doubled, and then re-doubled (or tripled, or quadrupled, depending on the weapon's critical multiplier)
Second mordion!
He beat me to it
Aha! I had not noticed that the wording on that had changed since the playtest doc. Thanks for pointing it out!
Whoa! Hold on: So, that makes - in the case of a sword - quadruple bonus damage? As in:
Base: 1d8(sword)+4(18 STR)+2(2H-weapon)+4(Mythic PA with 2H-weapon BaB <4)
On a crit, that would make:
2d8+8+4+16?!
Or would it follow the general guideline for multiplying (add +1 to the highest factor)to get:
2d8+8+4+12?
I assume it's the former, which is a big ouch, certainly at higher levels :-)