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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7967648" data-attributes="member: 57383">Hmm, how would a fight between Khalk'ru and the Mystaran Kraken play out? (Course this isn't exactly a good comparison to a PC party vs. monster conflict)If the Kraken full-attacks Khalk'ru its +78 melee attacks will pretty automatically hit, so it's likely to do about 500 damage (its ten tentacle average 42 damage apiece and its bite 46 and it's likely to critical with one of them due to having Improved Critical) odds are, it won't quite do enough damage to overcome Khalk'ru's 555 hit points.Contrariwise, Khalk'ru twelve +37 melee tentacles have a 90% chance of hitting the Kraken's AC 40, so he'll likely hit with 10 or so for about 300 damage (28.5 average), but then Mystie has to make ten +30 Will saves vs Touch of Destruction's DC 33, which statistics tells me is only 34.86% likely, so about 65% of the time the Mystaran Kraken will be drained to a lifeless husk. Although on the good side, Mystie will probably make the +46 Fort saves vs. Destruction so at least he'll leave a corpse!However, if the Kraken's smart it'll power-attack Khalk'ru, it can power attack at -40 to hit and still have a 95% hit chance, almost doubling the damage-per-hit and tearing The Dissolver asunder with one round of full attacks. Even with only Intelligence 5 it's likely to figure that one out.'Course Khalk'ru's exceptionally intelligent so would just keep greater teleporting out of the Kraken's reach and spamming enervation at the beast's tentacles until the Kraken's done for.So basically if they both fight &quot;smart&quot; Khalk'ru wins, if they immediately jump into a all-tentacle brawl it's fairly close, and pretty much whoever wins initiative wins.Although &quot;whoever wins initiative wins&quot; is pretty much the maxim of high-level 3E combat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7967648, member: 57383"] Hmm, how would a fight between Khalk'ru and the Mystaran Kraken play out? (Course this isn't exactly a good comparison to a PC party vs. monster conflict) If the Kraken full-attacks Khalk'ru its +78 melee attacks will pretty automatically hit, so it's likely to do about 500 damage (its ten tentacle average 42 damage apiece and its bite 46 and it's likely to critical with one of them due to having Improved Critical) odds are, it won't [I]quite[/I] do enough damage to overcome Khalk'ru's 555 hit points. Contrariwise, Khalk'ru twelve +37 melee tentacles have a 90% chance of hitting the Kraken's AC 40, so he'll likely hit with 10 or so for about 300 damage (28.5 average), but then Mystie has to make ten +30 Will saves vs Touch of Destruction's DC 33, which statistics tells me is only 34.86% likely, so about 65% of the time the Mystaran Kraken will be drained to a lifeless husk. Although on the good side, Mystie will probably make the +46 Fort saves vs. Destruction so at least he'll leave a corpse! However, if the Kraken's smart it'll power-attack Khalk'ru, it can power attack at -40 to hit and still have a 95% hit chance, almost doubling the damage-per-hit and tearing The Dissolver asunder with one round of full attacks. Even with only Intelligence 5 it's likely to figure that one out. 'Course Khalk'ru's exceptionally intelligent so would just keep [I]greater teleporting[/I] out of the Kraken's reach and spamming [I]enervation[/I] at the beast's tentacles until the Kraken's done for. So basically if they both fight "smart" Khalk'ru wins, if they immediately jump into a all-tentacle brawl it's fairly close, and pretty much whoever wins initiative wins. Although "whoever wins initiative wins" is pretty much the maxim of high-level 3E combat. [/QUOTE]

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