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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cognomen's Cassowary" data-source="post: 6881948" data-attributes="member: 6801445">I think you misstated your thought here. This is a "heads I win, tails you lose"-type statement. What you mean with the second independent clause, I think, is that if the difference between AC and modifier is 13 or less, attacks are more likely to succeed.Two things to keep in mind: there's no such thing as proficiency in armor class, and you cannot crit with a save spell. In practice, these two facts mean that you are almost always going to do more damage with the attack than with the save spell, all else being equal. Unless, that is, you know specific vulnerabilities, like Str on a demilich or Dex on a tarrasque.I have a spreadsheet somewhat similar to what you're asking for. It doesn't put names of creatures next to their stat blocks, but it collects the AC and ability scores of all creatures at each CR to find the median, and thereby it allows us to observe trends as CRs rise. I've slapped some comments on to try to make it intelligible to people who are not me. The forum won't let me upload it as an OpenOffice document, so you get instead OpenOffice's half-hearted attempt to convert it to outdated Excel.[ATTACH]76366[/ATTACH]Edit: I found a website to convert it to modern Excel. I'm still not sure how good the conversion is; I'll try to remember to check when I'm at the library in a little bit.[ATTACH]76367[/ATTACH]Edit 2: It looks like the numbers and comments survived, but the graphs are a little altered. You should be able to fix them fairly easily if it matters to you.</blockquote>

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