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Hi everyone,
My players yesterday encountered the Grauladon, and we all came to a friendly disagreement about how one of it's attacks works.
The attack in question is this one:
Body Slam; Requirements: More than one enemy is adjacent to the grauladon.; Effect: The grauladon swings its tail at each adjacent enemy and attempts to Trip each creature adjacent to it. It rolls only a single Athletics check and compares the result to the Fortitude DC of each target.
Now, normally a Trip action is Athletics vs Reflex DC, but we played it against Fortitude like the attack says. The confusion came when I rolled a critical success for this attack. A normal trip would have caused 1d6 bludgeoning to everyone in that regard, but the players were adamant it wasn't a normal trip action and so no damage should be applied, unless the attack itself mentioned a critical success effect.
I'm fairly certain the damage should have applied, but I also had to consider what if the Body Slam roll was a critical failure? Does the Grauladon fall prone? What if it only critically failed against one of it's targets?
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If it says attempt to Trip then it would use the Trip success/failure table, regardless if it targets a different DC. The only exception would be if it provided its own table to use instead, which it doesn't.
If it rolled a critical failure on any trip attempts, I assume it would fall prone.