On average, how much damage do your party fighters do?

[Stalker0]

Hey guys, I'm trying to collect some data to help me with a model I'm making

Basically what I would like to know is, how much damage on average do your party fighters do per swing. I'd like to know for any fighters in the levels 1-5. Let me know if they are a big fighter or barb, or just a cleric or even a rogue if he fights a lot.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[buzzard]

Well we have a 4th level dwarven axe wielder in the party. He uses a dwarven waraxe one handed. He has Str 16 and weapon spec. Thus his damage is 1d10+5.
He is a sraight up fighter.

buzzard

 

[DanMcS]

Hey guys, I'm trying to collect some data to help me with a model I'm making

Basically what I would like to know is, how much damage on average do your party fighters do per swing. I'd like to know for any fighters in the levels 1-5. Let me know if they are a big fighter or barb, or just a cleric or even a rogue if he fights a lot.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Using the normal stat distribution (15,14,13,12,10,8) a fighter-type will typically have a 14 or 15 in strength at low levels.

A typical one-handed, martial weapon will deal 1d8 damage, average 4.5.
A typical two-handed martial weapon deals 2d6 or 1d6, average 7 or 6.5.

So at low levels, there's a strength bonus of +2, for average damage of:
one-handed: 6.5
two-handed: 9.5

Add 2 (1h) or 3 (2h) to that for a raging barbarian.
You can almost ignore crits for simple analyses because they tend to balance out; a x3 weapon vs a 19-20/x2 weapon is pretty equivalent.

Full power attacking will alter this by +1/BAB (one-handed) or +2/BAB (two-handed).
Magical weapons affect this about how you would expect.

Once you get beyond 3rd level you start running into weapon specialization, buffs, and so on, and it gets harder to predict. You could look at the typical NPCs in the DMG for a start.

 

[JimAde]

When my current group was 5th level, the dwarf fighter was putting out about 10 points of damage on a regular hit with his (non-magical) greataxe. Of course that could go up when he used Power Attack. The archer, if she hit with both Rapid shot arrows, did in the same neighborhood.

NOW at 10th level the numbers are much higher, of course.

Of course that doesn't take in to account misses and such.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

My half-orc fighter of 4th level averages 13 hp of damage per strike (21 str, Wpn Spc (Greatsword)).

 

[Nebulous]

Well, i made some characters the other day, Conan d20 barbarian and a Midnight defender. With greatsword, he was dishing i think 2d6 + 6, and the defender was 2d6 +3 vs. living opponents with his fists. I also made two Game of Thrones characters, and that's where things got interesting. One was Giant Blooded (21 Str) and could wield a 2H weapon in one hand, and also carry a large shield (+8 AC bonus). He was wearing scale mail i think. He fought another man-at-arms carrying a longsword (d8+2) and chainmail and a shield. Anyway, the bigger guy annihilated the smaller one. Just, destroyed him, although it took about 6 rounds of hammering on each other. Little guy never hurt big guy. Same hit points, although Big Guy was +1 ECL.

GoT is some nasty combat. Shields offer great defense, but the big guy just bashed through the shield of the smaller fellow, stunned him, knocked his weapons away. You have to have Brute: Offense Feat to get your Str bonus to hit, but Brute: Defense offers Str bonus to Parry. So he had both. He was a helluva mean fighter, compared to most other warriors of smaller stature.

Is that what you're looking for, different fighter models?

 

[Bullgrit]

My half-orc fighter of 4th level averages 13 hp of damage per strike (21 str, Wpn Spc (Greatsword)).

That seems low. My human paladin of 4th level averages 10 points of damage with his greatsword (14 Str).

[Edit: You changed it from 12 to 13 damage as I hit reply.]

Should your half-orc be averaging 16 damage? 2d6 = 7, +7 (Str), +2 (Weapon Spec) = 16.

Bullgrit

 

[ThirdWizard]

Here are two examples. They're higher level now, but I have some old info here.

Bruin 2d4+5 falchion+1 (human barbarian 5) before power attack. I think its +8 after rage.
Stock 1d8+6/1d8+2 or 1d8+8 orc double axe +1/+0 (bugbear fighter 1 - ECL 5)

I think Bruin is right... its hard to read that player's handwriting.

 

[Crothian]

In our group of pshychic warrior half giant at that level was doing around 15-20, but he's not what I'd call average.

 

[diaglo]

not enough.

i'm playing a hin twf ranger/rogue/dragonslayer in the FR. current lvl 6/4/4

6 attacks... 7 when hasted.

+1 fey bane cold iron Small Longsword (1d6 +2 damage) primary hand
+1 silver Small dagger (1d3 damage (+1 - 1 = +0))

attack +14/+9/+4 sword; +18/+13/+8 dagger