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In addition, all critical hit rolls against evil foes are automatically successful, so every threat is a critical hit.
Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee attack, you can trip your opponent, in addition to the normal damage dealt by the attack. If your confirmation roll exceeds your opponent’s CMD, you may knock your opponent prone as if from the trip combat maneuver. This does not provoke an attack of opportunity. If you are tripped during your own trip attempt, you can drop your weapon to avoid being tripped.Do these work together at all? I see a few ways that it could work.
- Take my initial roll and use that since that for the trip since that is the roll that basically "confirmed the crit".
- It doesn't work because I didn't make a confirmation roll so it doesn't apply without a confirmation roll.
- Even though you've already confirmed the crit, go ahead and make a confirmation roll for the trip attempt to see if it's successful.
Thoughts?
Because an opponent's CMD can be (likely is) different than her AC, a confirmation roll might succeed at confirming a critical hit yet be insufficient to trip that opponent.
I would say make a confirmation roll anyway. Whatever you roll is sufficient to confirm the crit (due to Bless Weapon) but must be evaluated as normal to determine if the trip from Tripping Strike is successful.
In other words, Bless Weapon reduced the value needed by the confirmation roll to whatever value you actually rolled, but has no effect on the CMD value.
TLDR: The third one