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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Truename" data-source="post: 4983430" data-attributes="member: 78255">The Monsters Strike BackAs a few people have mentioned, if all we're doing is a glorified DPR calculation, there's not much point. The real question is, how does each encounter consume the PCs' valuable resources?To start answering that question, I first added the ability for the monster to fight back. So far, I haven't added initiative rolls, so the creatures act simultaneously--both the monster and the PC get an attack every round even if one of them is killed. (In other words, I only check if someone died at the top of the round.)Same characters as before, but I added some new stats to the sim:PC AC: 17PC HP: 27Monster attack bonus: 3Monster damage: 1d10 + 3Results:[code]LEVEL 1 SOLDIER VS. DWARF GREATWEAPON FIGHTER (no feats, no powers)Fights simulated: 1000000Avg rounds: 5.1  2  (2.3%): ======  3 (19.9%): ==================================================  4 (43.3%): ===================================================================  5 (64.2%): ===========================================================  6 (79.3%): ===========================================  7 (88.8%): ===========================  8 (94.3%): ===============  9 (97.2%): ======== 10 (98.7%): ==== 11 (99.4%): ==Avg HP remaining: 10.6 of 27-12  (0.6%): ==-11  (1.2%): ===-10  (2.1%): ==== -9  (3.2%): ===== -8  (4.5%): ====== -7  (6.0%): ======= -6  (7.7%): ======== -5  (9.8%): ========== -4 (12.1%): =========== -3 (14.6%): ============= -2 (17.0%): ============ -1 (19.4%): ===========  0 (21.6%): ===========  1 (24.4%): =============  2 (26.6%): ===========  3 (29.0%): ============  4 (31.5%): ============  5 (34.1%): =============  6 (36.7%): =============  7 (39.3%): =============  8 (42.0%): ==============  9 (44.9%): ============== 10 (47.9%): =============== 11 (49.9%): ========== 12 (51.7%): ========= 13 (53.2%): ======= 14 (61.2%): ======================================== 15 (64.7%): ================== 16 (68.1%): ================ 17 (71.2%): ================ 18 (74.1%): ============== 19 (76.9%): ============= 20 (79.4%): ============ 21 (81.9%): ============ 22 (84.4%): ============ 23 (86.9%): ============ 27(100.0%): ===================================================================[/code]Under these circumstances, the PC dies 21.6% of the time, and takes no damage at all 13.1% of the time. The fights are over a little more quickly because if the PC can't mop up the monster in a decent amount of time, the monster mops up the PC. There's an interesting spike at the 14hp mark--for some reason, taking exactly 13 damage is the most common damage, if you're damaged at all. I presume that's because it's critical damage--it's not that criticals are more common, but that critical damage is non-random, making it jump out of the noise more.Similarly, I presume hp of 11-13 and 24-26 is uncommon because the monster always deals at least 4 damage.</blockquote>

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