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Numenera: Third Time Wasn't the Charm
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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 7627293" data-attributes="member: 5142"><p>So out of my own curiosity, I decided to go through the main Numenera books to get a sense for the Armor ratings (AR) of the creatures. I will look per book (of the selected books) and then the total. </p><p></p><p>Numenera Discovery (old core book but modified) </p><p>0 AR: 12 </p><p>1 AR: 6 </p><p>2 AR: 9 </p><p>3 AR: 6 </p><p>4 AR: 5 </p><p>5 AR: 1 </p><p>6 AR: 1 </p><p></p><p>Numenera Destiny (new core book) </p><p>0 AR: 9 </p><p>1 AR: 4 </p><p>2 AR: 5 </p><p>3 AR: 7 </p><p>4 AR: 5 </p><p>5 AR: 1 </p><p></p><p>Numenera World Guidebook </p><p>0 AR: 5 </p><p>1 AR: 10 </p><p>2 AR: 7 </p><p>3 AR: 3 </p><p>4 AR: 1 </p><p>12: 1 (the Eurieg, which is DC 4/TN 12 sled "dog," so I am fairly convinced this was a typo) </p><p></p><p>Bestiary 1 </p><p>0 AR: 19 </p><p>1 AR: 33 </p><p>2 AR: 26 </p><p>3 AR: 21 </p><p>4 AR: 12 </p><p>5 AR: 5 </p><p>6 AR: 2 </p><p>8 AR: 1 </p><p></p><p>Bestiary 2 </p><p>0 AR: 58 </p><p>1 AR: 28 </p><p>2 AR: 37 </p><p>3 AR: 26 </p><p>4 AR: 10 </p><p>5 AR: 7 </p><p>10 AR: 1 (The Vow, which is DC 10/TN 30 and the stuff of apocryphal legends) </p><p></p><p>Bestiary 3 </p><p>0 AR: 48 </p><p>1 AR: 57 </p><p>2 AR: 31 </p><p>3 AR: 21 </p><p>4 AR: 9 </p><p>5 AR: 4 </p><p>6 AR: 1 </p><p>8 AR: 1 </p><p></p><p>Totals (558 creatures) </p><p>0 AR: 151; ~27.1 percent </p><p>1 AR: 138 ~24.7 percent </p><p>2 AR: 115; ~20.6 percent </p><p>3 AR: 84; ~15.1 percent </p><p>4 AR: 42; ~7.53 percent </p><p>5 AR: 18; ~3.23 percent </p><p>6 AR: 5; ~0.90 percent </p><p>8 AR: 3; ~0.54 percent </p><p>10 AR: 1: ~0.18 percent </p><p>12 AR: 1 (likely meant to be 1-2 AR); ~0.18 percent </p><p></p><p>Also, while going through these books, I noticed that many of the higher AR creatures are not necessarily even meant to be fought. Some are things like creatures that support entire settlements on their back or in a pocket dimension in their head. Most of the things that 5+ AR are either things like that or things are you are not meant to fight until higher tiers when you should have more ways to penetrate armor. </p><p></p><p>But let's run a hypothetical scenario with a Tier 1 glaive and a Tier 1 nano where you were facing a creature with AR 4-5, so around 10-11 percent collectively from creatures surveyed. </p><p></p><p>Glaive: You get Combat Prowess, which provides +1 damage to your choice of ranged or melee weapons. You have access to all weapons, which would include Medium (4 dmg) or Heavy (6 dmg). This is 5-7 damage default per hit, not including any special abilities that you may have as part of your focus, which should get past most 4-5 AR. This does not include the possibility for critical hits either. </p><p></p><p>Nano: You can only use Light Weapons (2 dmg), but you can pick a Tier 1 ability called Onslaught that does 4 dmg. It costs 1 Int to use, but as a Nano you have Intellect Edge 1, so the ability cost is effectively 0. If you get a critical hit on a 19, that's +3 dmg; or on a 20, that's +4 dmg. So that would still provide you 7-8 dmg to bypass 4-5 AR. Sure that requires a critical, but you had mentioned "even on a critical" you didn't do damage. </p><p></p><p>Now if we are talking about bypassing any AR above 5, then we are talking about 1.8 percent of all creatures in the books that I looked through above: the 2 core books, the setting book, and 3 bestiaries.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 7627293, member: 5142"] So out of my own curiosity, I decided to go through the main Numenera books to get a sense for the Armor ratings (AR) of the creatures. I will look per book (of the selected books) and then the total. Numenera Discovery (old core book but modified) 0 AR: 12 1 AR: 6 2 AR: 9 3 AR: 6 4 AR: 5 5 AR: 1 6 AR: 1 Numenera Destiny (new core book) 0 AR: 9 1 AR: 4 2 AR: 5 3 AR: 7 4 AR: 5 5 AR: 1 Numenera World Guidebook 0 AR: 5 1 AR: 10 2 AR: 7 3 AR: 3 4 AR: 1 12: 1 (the Eurieg, which is DC 4/TN 12 sled "dog," so I am fairly convinced this was a typo) Bestiary 1 0 AR: 19 1 AR: 33 2 AR: 26 3 AR: 21 4 AR: 12 5 AR: 5 6 AR: 2 8 AR: 1 Bestiary 2 0 AR: 58 1 AR: 28 2 AR: 37 3 AR: 26 4 AR: 10 5 AR: 7 10 AR: 1 (The Vow, which is DC 10/TN 30 and the stuff of apocryphal legends) Bestiary 3 0 AR: 48 1 AR: 57 2 AR: 31 3 AR: 21 4 AR: 9 5 AR: 4 6 AR: 1 8 AR: 1 Totals (558 creatures) 0 AR: 151; ~27.1 percent 1 AR: 138 ~24.7 percent 2 AR: 115; ~20.6 percent 3 AR: 84; ~15.1 percent 4 AR: 42; ~7.53 percent 5 AR: 18; ~3.23 percent 6 AR: 5; ~0.90 percent 8 AR: 3; ~0.54 percent 10 AR: 1: ~0.18 percent 12 AR: 1 (likely meant to be 1-2 AR); ~0.18 percent Also, while going through these books, I noticed that many of the higher AR creatures are not necessarily even meant to be fought. Some are things like creatures that support entire settlements on their back or in a pocket dimension in their head. Most of the things that 5+ AR are either things like that or things are you are not meant to fight until higher tiers when you should have more ways to penetrate armor. But let's run a hypothetical scenario with a Tier 1 glaive and a Tier 1 nano where you were facing a creature with AR 4-5, so around 10-11 percent collectively from creatures surveyed. Glaive: You get Combat Prowess, which provides +1 damage to your choice of ranged or melee weapons. You have access to all weapons, which would include Medium (4 dmg) or Heavy (6 dmg). This is 5-7 damage default per hit, not including any special abilities that you may have as part of your focus, which should get past most 4-5 AR. This does not include the possibility for critical hits either. Nano: You can only use Light Weapons (2 dmg), but you can pick a Tier 1 ability called Onslaught that does 4 dmg. It costs 1 Int to use, but as a Nano you have Intellect Edge 1, so the ability cost is effectively 0. If you get a critical hit on a 19, that's +3 dmg; or on a 20, that's +4 dmg. So that would still provide you 7-8 dmg to bypass 4-5 AR. Sure that requires a critical, but you had mentioned "even on a critical" you didn't do damage. Now if we are talking about bypassing any AR above 5, then we are talking about 1.8 percent of all creatures in the books that I looked through above: the 2 core books, the setting book, and 3 bestiaries. [/QUOTE]
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