If you hit, it is already considered a critical hit This is the case regardless of whether you then roll a natural 20 or not. When the Rogue is assassinating a surprised target, it will be a critical hit regardless of what the roll of the d20 is, providing of course you still beat the target's ...

My question is related to rogue archetype assassin. On surprise rounds if I hit a creature it is automatically a critical hit. But what if I rolled a natural 20 on attack during surprise round? Does that count as double critical hit? I'm asking this because on lv 17 assassin gets Death Strike t...

Critical hit means, for each damage die you would roll for a non-critical, you roll it twice instead of once. Death strike means you take the damage you would have dealt if it were not a death strike (which would still be a critical hit), and you double that. The order of operations is: Decid...

Ranger casts Hunter's Mark on a werewolf and shoots it with a mundane bow. Does the werewolf take the hunter's mark damage and ignore the piercing damage from the bow, or does it take no damage at all? Hunter's Mark doesn't specify damage type like Hex, for example.