Question: I am a Divination Wizard with portent, and I roll a 20 as one my foretelling rolls. In combat, I attack with a dagger, but before I roll the attack, I instead use the foretelling roll of 20. Is this considered a critical hit?
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Rolling 1 or 20
Sometimes fate blesses or curses a combatant, causing the novice to hit and the veteran to miss.
If the d20 roll for an attack is a 20, the attack hits regardless of any modifiers or the target's AC. This is called a critical hit, which is explained later in this chapter.
Portent
Starting at 2nd level when you choose this school, glimpses of the future begin to press in on your awareness. When you finish a long rest, roll two d20s and record the numbers rolled. You can replace any attack roll, saving throw, or ability check made by you or a creature that you can see with one of these foretelling rolls. You must choose to do so before the roll, and you can replace a roll in this way only once per turn.
Yes though there would be much better used for it:
Using it with a dagger attack guarantees 1d4 more damage than a normal hit and maybe 2d4+3 more than a miss
Using it on a rogue's attack means they also get to crit their sneak attack dice
A Paladin might also appreciate it so they can get a crit and then use smite
Spell casters will be very appreciate of a guaranteed crit when they are using a levelled spell for maximum damage (thinking of things like guiding bolt from a cleric or chromatic orb from yourself)
I really was just wanting to verify that a natural 20 rolled with portent counts as a natural 20 when used for an attack roll, resulting in a critical hit. It looks like the consensus is yes.
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Question: I am a Divination Wizard with portent, and I roll a 20 as one my foretelling rolls. In combat, I attack with a dagger, but before I roll the attack, I instead use the foretelling roll of 20. Is this considered a critical hit?
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Yes.
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Yes though there would be much better used for it:
Using it with a dagger attack guarantees 1d4 more damage than a normal hit and maybe 2d4+3 more than a miss
The dagger was just an example.
I really was just wanting to verify that a natural 20 rolled with portent counts as a natural 20 when used for an attack roll, resulting in a critical hit. It looks like the consensus is yes.