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Nice Average Damage When Only A 20 Hits Is An Oxymoron Holy Cow, I hate this myth (see subject heading). Here's how the example level 12 fighter (24 Str, bunch of GS feats, +3 GS, full attack) I posted on page 2 does with no PA vs. max PA against ACs: AC no PA Dam PA PA Dam 44 6.66 12...

This thread has been dead a month, I know. But timing is everything, and my timing's off, so here's my rather-more-than-2 cp opinion. First off, here's a tool anyone can use to calculate their optimum PA for full attacks and single attacks, if they don't mind NOT being a PrC or epic character...

Bump. I wanna look at this some more when I have time. It's a good problem, and it does have an explicit solution.

Is anyone else annoyed with the ironic fact that because of the success of this forum, no thread hangs around for more than a few hours on page 1?

Wandering monsters. The spice of dungeon life, almost always underused in the micromanaged adventure (IMO). If that doesn't work as a permanent diversion, let the noise of battle attact a pack of dire ___, which promplty smash to bits the statue/fountain/empty chest in an effort to get at all...

The controversy in 3.0 and 3.5 has always raged about the virtues of fighters, especially how they don't scale as spellcasters do at high levels, etc. See the WOTC boards for such ad nauseam debate. What always gets lost, it seems to me, is the joy of playing fighter-types at low levels. It's...

To be brief, as I must for fear of board-post-munching: I compare the average full attack damage/round for a 18 Str 20 Dex Lvl 12 Fighter. Feats of TWF, iTWF, gTWF, WF, gWF, WS, gWS, iC for short sword (SS). My argument: better off wielding two extra damage SS than equal value Plain-Jane...

So here are some numbers to start with. In this example I consider n=3,4,&5; s=6, and d = 0,1,or 2. I've been thinking along the lines of: 1). Count the ways of rolling the outcome with 3 dice. We've done this already in this thread. 2). For each way of rolling an outcome, count the...

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anyone want to tackle 4d6 drop lowest Bump, and The generalized drop formula. n = # of dice s = sides of die d = # of dropped dice What is the # of ways of rolling an outcome? Or, what is the probability of rolling an outcome? Anyone wanna crack this with elegance?

Feel free to download, use, & modify/trash the spreadsheets at my site. Power attack spreadsheet calculates the best power attack values for full attack damage/round maximization against a range of ACs, parameterized by the wielder, weapon, and opponent. Only for non-Epic characters so far...

I'm not sure that's much of a comparison, because the result is obvious: stronger is better. But here's by how much. Same stats as above, but small guy has 20 Str. I invite you to tinker with my spreadsheet (signature) to try other comparisons of small vs. medium, tiny vs. medium, small vs...

small v. medium level 12 fighters Here's a comparison between a medium-sized fighter and small-sized fighter. Each is otherwise identical at level 12, 22 Str, feats of WF, gWF, WS, gWS, iC in greatsword, and each wields a +3 greatsword. Edit: each greatsword is sized for its wielder Average...

Thanks for the interest! As I'm still checking all of the Ps and Qs with this spreadsheet, I'd rather continue to maintain and update the geocities site with newer versions. Sorry that's is such a pain with their download rate limits. I think you'll find the interest in this waning to only a...

No, you're not a dummy. http://www.geocities.com/frisbeet/DandDandFightin.html Above's a link to my site containing a large zipped Excel spreadsheet for determining the PA which maximizes the average damage/round a parameterized character wielding PHB weapon(s) could do against ACs 10-50...

Is this what you're looking for? http://www.geocities.com/frisbeet/DandDandFightin.html I'd prefer not to call it a munchkin calculator, in that it just spits out numbers determined from the core rules. But call it what you want. I've found that, at least when it comes to picking weapons...

I've completely gutted my old 3.0 comparison spreadsheet to handle 3.5. What it does is calculate the full attack average damage/round against ACs 10-50 for 2 parameterized characters and their melee weapons. I need testers. I've tried to make this spreadsheet very flexible, and doing so may...

Mike Sullivan, I admire your patience.

This change does not bring PA even close to "broken". Compare how much damage a 3.0 (or 3.5) TW fighter, 3.0 THW fighter, and 3.5 THW fighter do against a range of ACs. They all know the AC of their opponent and strike with the optimum PA which maximizes their average full attack (FA)...

Just because I can, in the spirit of Mike Sullivan's analyis, I'm presenting a comparison between a 3.0 and 3.5 fighter, otherwise the same: 16 level 24 Strength Feats of Weapon Focus, Specialization, and Improved Critical in Greatsword, and Power Attack Wielding a +4 keen Greatsword Here's...