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<blockquote data-quote="DM-Rocco" data-source="post: 2398230" data-attributes="member: 14451">I assume your being facetious since they all have the same stats J &nbsp;Assume they are all 18th level reguardless of XP.Anyway, 1.0 character with 10s in all stats is going to do an average of 5 points of damage a swing with two attacks around missing on a roll of a 1 would hit 19 times out of 20 for a total of 95 hit points of damage in ten rounds.&nbsp;A 3.5 fighter with all 10s is going to hit in the same manner but because of Critical hits in 3.5, and his improved crit with the long sword gives him 4 crits threats in 20 swings. A normal hit would do 5 from weapon damage and 4 from weapon specialization doing 9 hit points damage per hit and 18 per hit on a crit and he should easily make the threat confirmation rolls so average damage in 10 rounds with a longsword would be 197.&nbsp;Oops, forgot that the 3.5 gets two more attacks and that they are at degrading effectiveness. Let’s see, the above results would still stand for the first two attacks even with the -5 to the secondary attacks so the 3rd and 4th attacks are at -10 and -15. At a +20 to hit even the 3rd attack would follow the same guide lines above while the 4th attack would miss 25% of the time and one less crit confirmation would be lost so over ten rounds the 3rd and 4th attacks would do 152 for a total of 349.&nbsp;So, if I figured it out right, a 18th level 3.5 could kill 3 18th level 1.0s at the same time.&nbsp;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DM-Rocco, post: 2398230, member: 14451"] [size=2]I assume your being facetious since they all have the same stats [font=Wingdings]J[/font] Assume they are all 18th level reguardless of XP. Anyway, 1.0 character with 10s in all stats is going to do an average of 5 points of damage a swing with two attacks around missing on a roll of a 1 would hit 19 times out of 20 for a total of 95 hit points of damage in ten rounds. A 3.5 fighter with all 10s is going to hit in the same manner but because of Critical hits in 3.5, and his improved crit with the long sword gives him 4 crits threats in 20 swings. A normal hit would do 5 from weapon damage and 4 from weapon specialization doing 9 hit points damage per hit and 18 per hit on a crit and he should easily make the threat confirmation rolls so average damage in 10 rounds with a longsword would be 197. Oops, forgot that the 3.5 gets two more attacks and that they are at degrading effectiveness. Let’s see, the above results would still stand for the first two attacks even with the -5 to the secondary attacks so the 3rd and 4th attacks are at -10 and -15. At a +20 to hit even the 3rd attack would follow the same guide lines above while the 4th attack would miss 25% of the time and one less crit confirmation would be lost so over ten rounds the 3rd and 4th attacks would do 152 for a total of 349. So, if I figured it out right, a 18th level 3.5 could kill 3 18th level 1.0s at the same time. [/size] [/QUOTE]

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