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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patlin" data-source="post: 1710132" data-attributes="member: 17264">One interesting thing to note is that by the terms of the contest as written, a Psywarrior who puts up Greater Concealing amorpha will never be hit unless the BBEG can somehow ignore that spell, as the rules of the contest state that any attack which will miss more than 50% of the time does.  Since the badguy will miss 50% of the time due to the amorpha and at least on a 1 otherwise, it will allways miss for the purposes of this simulation.  That fact by itself will assure the Psywarriors victory every time, so the rules are flawed.This is an interesting assertion.  My build is slightly different, of course, but I thought I'd check this scenario.Assuming form of doom is the only buff my psywarrior has up, and giving him a +5 falchion, +6 strength item and a +6 wisdom item, it works out as follows:3 falchion strikes, on the last I use Deep Strike.  All hit.  I also use Greater Psionic Weapon for an extra 4d6 damage (I have psicrystal containment, so I have two focuses to burn and can do this.)  4 tentacle attacks, all of which hit.Damage will be 4d6 (GPW) plus (2d4 + 37) * 3 plus (2d8+22) * 4.  On average this will be 14 + 126 + 124 = 264 points of damage in the initial attack.  Not quite enough to kill it, assuming it's immune to critical hits and/or assuming I always roll 11s as the smackdown seems to assume.  Too bad, since my threat range is 15 - 20 and I'm taking a slight damage hit by going for the falchion, but I didn't want to skew the results by changing my build to something designed specifically for this fight.That cost 31 of my 177 power points.  A small enough amount it can be done even for the last fight of the day, even assuming I have no cognizance crystals or other such goodies.  Just for fun, let's assume I had had time to put up one more buff.  Precognition, Offensive for 19 pp gives a +7 insight bonus on all attacks.  Throwing all of that into power attack and leaving everything else the same increases the damage by 42 points, 14 for each of the three falchion hits.  The tentacle attacks are light, and do not benefit.  That brings us up to 306 points of damage, and the monster is indeed dead in the first round.</blockquote>

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