Shoot, now I'm not sure either... XD
Oh well, new FAQ entry I suppose: "Does Third Path to Perfection cause you to take half damage on a critical failure?"
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We tried to use "when you roll a" every time to avoid this, but we'll probably need to FAQ. Chains of things that happen within the same ability that adjust you up a degree of success and then do something else when you are already there (like, "If you roll a success, you get a critical success, if you roll a critical success, you get XXnew-thing") are pretty much never supposed to give you both: the whole point of the second feature is to make rolling a critical success still mean something vis a success, which following a daisy chain would eliminate.
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Good to know, Mark. That rationale makes sense, thanks. So you really have to ROLL the result to get the effect, not get there via success upgrade.
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Thanks, Mark! Good to know. I figured "half damage on everything" was too strong, which is why I assumed it didn't daisy chain.
The wording does say "when you roll" for the first part, which made me think along the lines you are talking about - "when you roll this result, not when you treat another result as this result". Unfortunately, the second part just says "when you fail" instead of "when you roll a failure", so that was the source of the uncertainty.