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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 307242" data-attributes="member: 2011">Re: Re: Re: Power Attack and StatisticsThat is why I also called the Full Attack equation a rule of thumb. Without a spreadsheet (or being a Rain Man at math), it's harder to come up with an easy actual equation that works in every case. So, I put up an equation that at least does not decrease the damage by adding too much PA (hence, your need for #1 to limit the AC 23 case).There are, however, break points at which the equations change and a different rule applies. For example, against AC 9 in the full round attack equation (which obviously would rarely or never happen at level 12, I'm just showing one example that I know of), using your method PA by (24-9)/2 rounded up = 8 gives (.95+.90+.65)*(18.5+8)*1.2 = 79.5 which is slightly less than the (.95+.95+.70)*(18.5+7)*1.2 = 79.56 you would get from PA'ing by only 7 (my method).But, your equation is more accurate at the higher ACs (with the exception of AC 23 for which you needed the special case) which will tend to be encountered. Good job! That's what happens when I do math extremely late at night. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />PS. Did you use a spreadsheet to figure out the error at the odd ACs or did you just stumble on it trying out different ACs?</blockquote>

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