Recent content by Splart

Dwarven Weapon Training Dwarven Weapon Training should be: Dwarven Weapon Training Prerequisite: Dwarf Benefit: You gain proficiency with all simple and military axes and hammers and a +2 feat bonus to damage rolls with such weapons. The bonus increases to +3 at 11th level and +4 at 21st...

Loisel, I went ahead and made the other spreadsheet I mentioned. While the focus of both your spreadsheet and mine was to compare between classes, the new spreadsheet focuses closely on maximizing the defense and damage of a single PC, within a given class. Take a look...

Wondering which will give your PC more damage? Two-handed or one-handed? Is the Bastard Sword worth the feat? Wondering which feat will help your PC survive longer in combat, Toughness or a armor feat? Is Iron Will worth taking? I've created a spreadsheet to help optimize feat, stat, and...

Several updates. I've corrected the crit damage formulas to take into account the ability of Rogues and Rangers to decide which attack to apply crit damage to after the die are rolled. There was an issue with the defense attack which caused it to always use AC. This has been fixed, so our...

Ok. Cool. I'll give both the rangers and TS rogues the same crit benefit.

Lvl 1 rogue w/ Twin Strike? Yes, the TS rogue uses TS from level 1. It's one of the restrictions of the design of the spreadsheet that PCs are not able to make major changes to their attack method as they go from level to level. It's possible to code it in, but it would make my...

Right-o. I was looking at 1.8. I didn't realize you'd already fixed it while we were talking.

What did you mean by splitting the spreadsheet? Are you talking about the hide/unhide groups with the "+" and "-" on the left on the PC page, which use the Data -> Group and Outline functions, or the mappings between 10 PCs with 3 columns each to 10 PCs with 6 columns for stats and 10 PCs with...

No need for formalities, especially with someone with a silly board name like "Splart." Now, let's get down to brass tacks, shall we? Yup. Sigh. I'll have to compare the probability matrices and add in the extra ranger quarry crits. PCritQuarry=PCritSneakAttack + PCrit * (PHit + PMiss)...

Whoa. Ok, you're right. It is 2 * Dex for one target. Well, that puts our Stormwarden solidly out in front again on DPR, and about equal on Gives to Get even after the lower AC. I've added in the second auto damage into the manual columns since it's a special case that's not worth recoding...

Huh. I'm impressed with your deep knowledge of the books. So, this would apply even if the ranger used an action point to get 4 attacks in a round. Funky. So, is that a feature of the ranger only, or is that a feature of all "quarry-like" attacks? I.e. does the rogue/ranger get the same...

This was a known design "feature," but since it bothered you, I've fixed it. I've added a level qualifier to both stat auto and stat miss damage above. Not forgotten. PHB 115 reads, "two adjacent enemies (your choice) take lightning damage. . ." My DM would rule that two adjacent enemies...

You miss my point. I'm clear about the scimitar damage. My guess is that WotC meant for Rain of Steel to do only weapon damage, not weapon damage plus WF, plus weapon enhancement, plus etc. Again, this is just a theory, since the power seems so over powered, and I don't know of any FAQs or...

Thanks all for the feedback. I've gone through the sheets and found some errors and improvements in feat orders in my sheets and an error in the formulas. I've removed the second armor specialization feat from as appropriate. Since both are typed feat bonuses, they don't stack. The TWD has...

Thanks, I'm clear on the halfling rogue with sly flourish. My mistake. Your answer above about the Rain of Steel damage kicked up something I've been struggling with. For high crit weapons, it says add an extra 1 W to the attack, which I thought meant you get to add feats, magic, etc, but on...