Pummeling style and criticals


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Shadow Lodge

You collect all your power into a single vicious and debilitating punch.

Prerequisite(s): Improved Unarmed Strike; base attack bonus +6, brawler's flurry class feature, or flurry of blows class feature.

Benefit: As a full-round action, you can pool all your attack potential in one devastating punch. Make a number of rolls equal to the number of attacks you can make with a full attack or a flurry of blows (your choice) with the normal attack bonus for each attack. For each roll that is a hit, you deal the normal amount of damage, adding it to any damage the attack has already dealt from previous rolls (if any). If any of the attack rolls are critical threats, make one confirmation roll for the entire attack at your highest base attack bonus. If it succeeds, the entire attack is a confirmed critical hit. You can only use Pummeling Style with unarmed strikes (see errata at right).

ok my question is simple. According to the text when you make a crit threat from any of the attacks and confirm your entire attack (which i understand as all of your attacks) become a critical hit, not a threat, a "confirmed critical hit"

So If you confirmed a critical with one attack from pummeling style do your other attacks have to hit in order to be critical?

Example:

Jeff McMonky uses pummeling style

he rolls a 1/1/2/20/1

he confirmed the natural 20, this means that according to raw the other four attacks are to be criticals, even tought 3 of the were critical fails?. More overhe did some of the attacks before the critical. Meaning monst of times the 3 first attacks normally are considered fails (on game) but when suddenly he rolls and confirms a crit his misses just become a hit? This is quite confusing and im not sure if its the intent. I was planning to ask for faq for t his but considering this feat has just been errataed i decided to justk ask for the time beign.

Dark Archive

If the attacks miss, you don't get the damage from them.

The whole ability means that if you critical one attack, you take the total damage you would have done normally (factoring in misses) and assuming you confirmed the crit, you multiply that total number by your crit modifier (x2 because unarmed strikes) to get the total damage.

Scarab Sages

Each individual attack is rolled for and resolved separately. If any of the attacks is a threat, you make one confirmation roll after you roll all individual attacks. If that confirmation roll hits, then all hits are treated as confirmed criticals, but misses are still misses.

Shadow Lodge

Ah interesting that makes it clearer

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