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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 409680" data-attributes="member: 284">Very heroic. I had you pegged at 3-5 rounds originally.  Not even dragons react instantaneously.   I just don't think you will have more than 1-2 rounds with a clear shot. Yeah, miss a lot.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I meant it's about one chance in a 100,000 that you will hit, crit, roll nearly max damage, and he will roll a 1.It's about 1 in 20 that you will hit him.    And even with 10 rounds to try, it's about 1 in 100 that you will crit. Your assuming you make a first critical. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Remember that the 40 AC is the minimum AC.    Any sorcerer worthy of the name will have the shield spell in their collection, and that goes double for a dragon.  (magic missiles are one of the few spells that can consistently hurt them until they get their spell resistance.)Even if you get GMW +5 cast on both your bow and your arrows, that's still only a +7 increase to your attack roll.    Even if you didn't have the -4 from range, the shield spell would negate that. I still think you are only going to hit on a natural 20.  You seem to be assuming that if you roll a natural 20 and hit him, that you will also confirm that crit.   That's a very big if. Even if you do Crit, you are rolling 4d8+12 (with your own abilities).   50+ is not guaranteed, because average damage is only around 30 points.   Now if you manage to get the GMW +5 on both your arrows and the bow, then any crit will most likely do at least 50 points.  (4d8+40 damage)And then he only fails his fort save on a natural 1. It's just not likely, but more power to you. Just better hope he doesn't have teleport.3e dragons are much more powerful than they were when Dragonlance was originally written.</blockquote>

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