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<blockquote data-quote="Psifon" data-source="post: 108567" data-attributes="member: 3171">Another consideration for power attack is overkill.&nbsp; You want to guestimate how much damage a foe can take, then do that much damage.&nbsp; If you are overkilling the enemy, then the power attack is wasted and the cost you payed in lower to hit chances was a risk not worth taking.Of course this is easier said than done.The way I look at it is how many hits is this creature:An orc or goblin is a one hit creature against almost any weapon.An ogre is a 3 hit creature if you use a light weaponA giant is probably a 6-8 hit creature or even more.Figure a two handed weapon does two hits in this rule of thumb systemNow what you want to do with power attack, is not just do more damage, you want to reduce the number of hits it takes to down the thing.Happy guestimating! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psifon, post: 108567, member: 3171"] Another consideration for power attack is overkill. You want to guestimate how much damage a foe can take, then do that much damage. If you are overkilling the enemy, then the power attack is wasted and the cost you payed in lower to hit chances was a risk not worth taking. Of course this is easier said than done. The way I look at it is how many hits is this creature: An orc or goblin is a one hit creature against almost any weapon. An ogre is a 3 hit creature if you use a light weapon A giant is probably a 6-8 hit creature or even more. Figure a two handed weapon does two hits in this rule of thumb system Now what you want to do with power attack, is not just do more damage, you want to reduce the number of hits it takes to down the thing. Happy guestimating! ;) [/QUOTE]

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